Countries
Georgia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Russki
  
French Name
géorgien
  
russe
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Russians
  
Origin
5th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic