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Georgie leid
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Georgian (ქართული ენა, pronounced [kʰɑrtʰuli ɛna]) is the native leid o the Georgians an the offeecial leid o Georgie, a kintra in the Caucasus.
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Georgian is the primary leid o aboot 3.9 million fowk in Georgie itsel, an o anither 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Roushie, the USA an the rest o Europe). It is the literary leid for aw regional subgroups o the Georgian ethnos, includin those who speak ither Sooth Caucasian or Kartvelian leids: Svans, Mingrelians, an the Laz. Judaeo-Georgian, sometimes considered a separate Jewish leid, is spoken bi an additional 20,000 in Georgie an 65,000 elsewhere (primarily 60,000 in Israel).