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Kartvelian languages map

4 Kartvelian languages are on the map, most of them in Georgia, Russia and Turkey. The best-known members include Georgian, Mingrelian and Laz. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Kartvelian family at a glance

  • 4languages
  • 4drawn as areas
  • 0shown as points

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Kartvelian alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Kartvelian languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Georgian spoken? (about 3.7 million speakers)
  2. Where is Mingrelian spoken? (about 346,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Laz spoken? (about 250,000 speakers)
  4. Where is Svan spoken? (about 15,000 speakers)

Where Kartvelian languages are spoken

Countries with the most Kartvelian languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 4 Kartvelian languages, A to Z

Questions about Kartvelian languages

How many Kartvelian languages are there?

4 living Kartvelian languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Kartvelian languages spoken?

Georgia (4), Russia (2), Turkey (2), Armenia (1), Azerbaijan (1) and Iran (1) have the most Kartvelian languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Kartvelian languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Georgian (about 3.7 million), Mingrelian (about 346,000) and Laz (about 250,000). These figures differ between sources and years.

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