1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Anatolian Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
bye
3.11 I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
80,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kartlian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Kartli
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
4.30 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
4.30 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available