1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Cabinet of Georgia
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Anatolian Languages
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
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Molo
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
ბოდიში (bodishi)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
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?
20.00 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Georgians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
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
99-AUT-fa
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic