Countries
Georgia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Anatolian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
آسف
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
géorgien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
5th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ka
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic