As a leader in Georgian translation services here at Caucasus Translations we discovered we haven't yet covered yet any topic about Georgian language. With this blog post we hope to change this on good. Lets start simple - Georgian language is spoken by Georgians in Republic of Georgia. Interesting fact about this language is that it has it's own writing system - the Georgian script. I will cover some basic about Georgian alphabet in some other future blog posts. Now - a little bit more complex - Georgian is a Kartvelian language. According to Wikipedia - There are approximately 5.2 million speakers of Kartvelian languages worldwide. It is not known to be related to any other language family, making it one of the world's primary language families.The first literary source in a Kartvelian language is the Georgian language inscription of Bir El Qutt, written in ancient Georgian Asomtavruli script at the Georgian monastery near Bethlehem, which dates back to c. 430 ADGeorgian language has many dialects, representing historcial regions of Georgia, like Imereti, Racha - Lechkhumi, Guria, Adjara, Kartli, Tusheti and others.Georgian is the most pervasive of the Kartvelian languages, a family that also includes Svan and Megrelian (chiefly spoken in Northwest Georgia) and Laz (chiefly spoken along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, from Melyat, Rize to the Georgian frontier).As stated above Georgian language dates back to at least to the 5th century, which is now known as an Old Georgian. The language spoken nowadays has been formed around the 17th/18th century.In the 11th century, Old Georgian gives rise to Middle Georgian, the literary language of the medieval kingdom of Georgia. The Georgian national epic, "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , by Shota Rustaveli, dates from the 12th century.Request a quote if you are looking for professional Georgian translation.
