Georgian
Kartvelian language
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Summary
Georgian is a natural language[1]. Georgian ranks in the top 4% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,777 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Georgia[3], Turkey[4], Russia[5], Iran[6], Azerbaijan[7], Armenia[8]
- Instance of: literary language[9], modern language[10]
- Follows: Old Georgian[11]
- Subclass of: Karto-Zan[12]
- Writing system: Georgian scripts[13], Georgian Braille[14], Asomtavruli[15], Nuskhuri[16], Mkhedruli[17]
- Commons category: Georgian language[18]
- Wikimedia language code: ka[19]
- Has part(s): Adjarian dialect[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Georgian language[21]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3,700,000[22]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[23], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24], The American Cyclopædia[25], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[26], New International Encyclopedia[27]
- Topic has template: Template:Georgian language[28]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/georgian[29]
- Native label: ქართული ენა[30], ქართული[31], ქართული[32]
- Short name: грузинский[33], грузинська[34], gürcücə[35], гуырдзиаг[36]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[37]
- Indigenous to: Georgians[38], Georgia[39], Artvin Province[40], Ordu Province[41], Sakarya Province[42], South Caucasus[43]
- Studied by: Georgian studies[44]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAT[45]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[46], ergative case[47], genitive case[48], dative case[49]
Why It Matters
Georgian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Georgian is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]