Georgian language
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Georgian ქართული Kartuli |
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Spoken in: | Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia | |
Total speakers: | 4.1 million [1] | |
Language family: | South Caucasian Georgian |
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Writing system: | Georgian alphabet | |
Official status | ||
Official language of: | Georgia | |
Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | ka | |
ISO 639-2: | geo (B)Template:Infobox Language/terminological | |
ISO 639-3: | kat | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Georgian (ქართული ენა, kartuli ena) is the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.
Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (83 percent of the population), and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Russia, USA and Europe). It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages (or Kartvelian languages): Svans, Megrelians, and the Laz. Gruzinic, or "Kivruli", sometimes considered a separate Jewish language, is spoken by an additional 20,000 in Georgia and 65,000 elsewhere (primarily 60,000 in Israel).
[change] References
- ↑ Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe By Glanville Price