Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Georgia
National Language
Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Not Available
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Dialect 2
Olonets
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Kartli
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Pshavi
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Russki
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
russe
géorgien
German Name
Russisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Georgians
Origin
1000 AD
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Kartvelian Family
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Georgian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1302
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Russian and Georgian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Georgian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Georgian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Georgian word for "Thank You" is გმადლობთ (gmadlobt). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Georgian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Georgian Difficulty
The Russian vs Georgian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Georgian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Georgian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Georgian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Georgian time required is 44 weeks.
