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Georgian (Fereydani): linguistics

Georgian (Fereydani) sounds, pronunciation, grammar and core vocabulary.

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01Sounds

The language’s phonemes, from one published description.

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This section will show the consonant and vowel tables of Georgian (Fereydani) from PHOIBLE 2.0, inventory Georgian (EA 2428), based on Aronson 1990. PHOIBLE is under CC BY-SA 3.0, and the tables appear once the owner approves the source.

02Core words compared

Ten everyday words across the languages of the region.

MeaningPersianKurmanjiSoraniZazakiBalochiAzerbaijaniArmenian
waterآبābavئاوawaweāpsuջուրjur
breadنانnānnanنانnannannānçörəkհացhatsʻ
motherمادرmādardêدایکdaykmayemātanaմայրmayr
fatherپدرpedarbavباوکbawkpîpitataհայրhayr
houseخانهkhānemalماڵmałkeyelōgevտունtun
nightشبshabşevشەوşewşeweshapgecəգիշերgisher
twoدوdoduدووdûdidoikiերկուerku
threeسهsesêسێsêhîrêsēüçերեքerekʻ
eyeچشمcheshmçavچاوçawçimchammgözաչքachkʻ
nameنامnāmnavناوnawnamenāmadանունanun

Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki and Balochi are Iranian languages, and many of their core words are related. Azerbaijani is Turkic and Armenian is its own branch of Indo-European, so their words differ. To verify

Sources Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. (1892) Verified; Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. (2003) To verify; Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. (1966) To verify; Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. (1998) To verify; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. (2009) To verify; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify; Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

03Sources

  1. Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019

    Verified CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoneme inventories, each from the published source it names, read 2026-10-23.

  2. Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892

    Verified Public domain. The digital edition was reachable on 2026-10-23.

  3. Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003

    To verify

  4. Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966

    To verify

  5. Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998

    To verify

  6. Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009

    To verify

  7. Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998

    To verify

  8. Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009

    To verify

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Georgian (Fereydani): Linguistics. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ka-ir/linguistics/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Georgian (Fereydani): Linguistics.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ka-ir/linguistics/.

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	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Georgian ({Fereydani}): Linguistics},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ka-ir/linguistics/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ka-ir/linguistics/},
}

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04Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. The Islamization and Ethnogenesis of the Fereydani Georgians

    Babak Rezvani · 2008 · Nationalities Papers

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

  2. Fereydani Georgians: Emic-Coherence, Hegemonic and Non-hegemonic Representation and Narration of Ethnic Identity

    Babak Rezvani · 2016 · Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  3. Iranian Georgians: Prerequisites for a Research

    Babak Rezvani · 2009 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleCrossref

  4. A Georgian Language Island in Iran: Fereydani Georgian

    Lia Bakuradze, Marina Beridze, Zakharia Pourtskhvanidze · 2020 · Iranian Studies

    ArticleOpenAlex

  5. The Fereydani Georgian Representation of Identity and Narration of History: A Case of Emic Coherence

    B. Rezvani · 2009 · Anthropology of the Middle East

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  6. The Proverbial Wisdom of a Georgian Language Island in Iran

    Tea Shurgaia · 2020 · Iranian Studies

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  7. ACCOUNTS OF WESTERN TRAVELERS CONCERNING THE ROLE OF ARMENIANS AND GEORGIANS IN 16TH‐CENTURY IRAN

    Paul G. Forand · 1975 · The Muslim World

    ArticleOpenAlex

  8. ‘Ideal Scheme’ or ‘Passing over the Rainbow’: Transmission of the Georgian Cultural Identity among the Fereydani Gorjīs

    Tamta Khalvashi · 2008 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  9. The higher prevalence of multiple sclerosis among Iranian Georgians; new clues to the role of genetic factors.

    Etemadifar M, Ghourchian S, Sabeti F et al. · 2020 · Rev Neurol (Paris)

    ArticleEurope PMC

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