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Language code: kat

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kat

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The table below provides technical details for the Georgian language, designated by the kat code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kat (Terminology)

Standard

ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3

Name

Official

Georgian

Native

Ქართული

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Kartlian (Central)KakhetianImeretianGurianAdjarianRachanTushetianPshavianMeskhian (Meskhetian)Ingiloan
Related languages
MingrelianLazSvan
Key facts
Mkhedruli alphabet has 33 letters and no distinct uppercase formsEarliest Georgian inscriptions date to the 5th century CE, giving it one of the oldest continuous literary traditions in the CaucasusFeatures ejective consonants and complex consonant clusters allowing up to eight consonants in a rowVerbal morphology is polypersonal, encoding subject, object, and indirect object in a single verb formIt belongs to the small Kartvelian family, unrelated to Indo-European, Turkic or Semitic groups
Sample phrase

გამარჯობა, როგორ ხარ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Georgian language, identified by the code kat, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Georgian language: kat for terminology purposes and geo for bibliographic uses.

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