Georgian language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Georgian |
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| Kartuli ქართული |
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| Region | Georgia (Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia) Russia, United States, Israel, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan |
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| Native speakers | 3.7 million (2014)e18 | |||
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Kartvelian
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| Early forms: |
Old Georgian
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Georgian dialects
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| Writing system | Georgian script Georgian Braille |
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| Official language in |  Georgia |
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| Regulated by | Cabinet of Georgia | |||
| Linguasphere | 42-CAB-baa – bac | |||
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Georgian (Ⴕⴀⴐⴒⴓⴊⴈ Ⴄⴌⴀ, khartuli 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).
Images for kids
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Georgian alphabet from The American Cyclopædia, 1879
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Road sign in Mtavruli and Latin scripts
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"Mshrali khidi" (dry bridge) bilingual construction signboard in Georgian (Mtavruli) and Italian in Tbilisi.
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The last verse of Shota Rustaveli's romance The Knight in the Panther's Skin illustrating the appearance of the Georgian script.
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See also
In Spanish: Idioma georgiano para niños
