Georgian

About Georgian

Georgian is the official language of Georgia. It belongs to the small Kartvelian family of the South Caucasus and is not related to its large neighbours, Russian, Armenian and Turkish.

Georgian has its own alphabet, Mkhedruli, with 33 letters and no capital letters. It has sounds English lacks, such as ejective consonants made with a small pop, often written with an apostrophe in Latin letters as in p' and t', and it allows long clusters of consonants. Use tkven as the polite "you" and shen with friends. Gamarjoba means hello and madloba thank you.

FamilyKartvelian
Official inGeorgia
ScriptGeorgian alphabet (Mkhedruli), 33 letters
Codeska (ISO 639-1), kat (ISO 639-3)

Classification: Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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