Countries
Georgia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
géorgien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
5th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional