Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
grazie
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Per Favore
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
scusate
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
Not Available
  
Native Name
Italiano
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
italien
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Georgians
  
Origin
960 BC
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic