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Galicia has over 2,800,000 inhabitants. The Galician-speaking territory is delimited by the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the farthest western area of Asturias, León and Zamora, as well as three small areas in Extremadura. The distribution of Galician is geographically homogeneous, there being no territorial areas where its use is not verified.
Apart from this, and due to the historical circumstances of the Galician emigration around the world, there are some regions with a large concentration of people of Galician origin. This population preserved its language as communication vehicle -not only in the private field but also in the public field- through periodicals, literary publications or even in the radio in host countries. There are still large Galician-speaking communities in cities such as Barcelona, Zurich, Montevideo or Buenos Aires.




LEGAL STATUS

Galicia is -by constitutional recognition- an autonomous community with its own institutions: its Parliament, its own government, security corps, its own public media, flag, etc.
The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia -passed in 1981- recognized Galician as the own language of Galicia and the coofficial language of the Community, which “everyone has the right to know and use”, and at the same time made the authorities responsible for the normalization of Galician in all fields. The Linguistic Normalization Act -passed unanimously on June 15th, 1983, by the Galician Parliament- guarantees and regulates citizens’ linguistic rights, particularly those regarding the fields of administration, education and the media.
After the enactment of this act, several orders and decrees were passed to complement the legal framework and ensure the recovery of Galician in the local, judicial and military administration. This legislative framework offers the possibility to communicate in Galician with the different administrations acting in Galicia and recognizes Galician place names as the only official forms. Furthermore, in accordance with the Linguistic Normalization Act, the local and autonomic administrations are obliged to write all of their official documents in Galician; the use of Galician is established in the whole educational system and the promotion of the language is guaranteed in those countries with emigrant Galician communities as well as in Galician-speaking areas bordering the Community.
Along the over twenty years of implementation of the Linguistic Normalization Act, crucial progress has been made in the process of normalization of Galician. The knowledge of Galician is a requirement for entry into public employment, as established in the Act of civil service; likewise, its status has been enhanced through the passing, in 1997, of the Act of local regime and other acts on the linguistic rights of consumers, product labelling, etc. However, full legal equality with Castilian has not been reached yet.

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León.

Collection of Ganda resources
http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Niger,045Congo/Bantu_Languages/
http://yourdictionary.com/languages/nigecong.html#bantu
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Ganda


Grammar
Grammar resources at Dicts.info


Writing system
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ganda


Ethnologue - Languages of the world
Ganda

Ganda, is a major language of Uganda, spoken by over three million people mainly in the Buganda region, which includes the Ugandan capital Kampala. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family. With 100,000 second-language speakers, it is the most widely spoken second language in Uganda next to English. The language is used in some primary schools in Buganda as pupils begin to learn English, the official language of Uganda.

Survival Georgian is a Georgian language phrase book for speakers of English. Read a sample from the revised and expanded version, which includes two new chapters and is now spiral-bound for easier use.


We've just added "Baby Talk", a list of words and expressions in Georgian that you can use to communicate with children. "Baby Talk" is an indispensable tool for adoptive parents, as well as medical personnel, or for anyone who may need to interact with Georgian-speaking children.


Our other new chapter is "Sweet Nothings", words and phrases for lovers (this chapter is strictly G-rated!). Whether you need to say "I love you" or "It's over", Survival Georgian has the phrase

Georgian Language Distance Learning Course designed for English speaking absolute beginners to develop the ability to communicate in Georgian with other Georgian speakers. Integrates the skills of listening to, speaking and reading Georgian, and also to a lesser extent writing.

It teaches about nouns and verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and much more. By the end of the course, students will have a good basic command and understanding of written and spoken Georgian.

The course is supplemented by a variety of oral (audio) and written material. It also is equipped with Tool Kit that works under MS ACCESS 2000. It will allow students to practice in different issues (alphabet, grammar etc.) and to take exams and to send exam “paper” automatically via Internet to a tutor. Results will be uploaded onto central computer system and reviewed by a tutor. The MS ACCESS tool is not available for Macintosh users. Thus, Macintosh users should do their exercises and exams in writing or printing using word processor but not automated system which checks the work and provides with results and advice instantly. The Macintosh users should send their work by Email to their tutor, while PC users will have less communications with their tutor. Write us if you need Windows XP and Office XP.

The name of this site – Armazi – is that of one of the main gods of the people of ancient Kartli (Iberia) in the South Caucasus. Armazi was proclaimed supreme royal god by the first Kartlian king, Parnavaz I, in the fourth century BCE. An old tradition credits Parnavaz I with devising the first Georgian script. Armazi is also the name of a fortress near modern Mtskheta that dates from the same period.

"Armazi, god of gods..., the great gods, conquerors of the world, lighters of the sun, givers of rain, who cause the fruits of the earth to grow..."

The illustration is of a bronze beltclasp dating from the South Caucasian Early Iron Age (late second / early first millennium BCE) depicting anthropomorphized gods hunting deer and fabulous beasts.

The information contained on these pages is believed to be correct at the time of publication.

Georgian Font Test - This test will guide to properly install Georgian Standard Fonts

Georgian 3D Alphabet

Georgian Alphabet

English-Georgian JAVA Dictionary - Java Script

English-Georgian Dictionary - First HTML Language Dictionary on the Internet
English-Georgian Dictionary - Similar version

Georgian Alphabet - with pictures, for children and beginners

"GeoDumba" Font - How to install Georgian TTF font

Georgian Language Support for Lingvo
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Georgian New Testament - Unicode encoding

Georgian Fairy Tales - in Russian langauge

Ioanne Shavteli - "Abdulmesiani" - Unicode encoding

Life of Saint Mary of Egypt - Poem written by Maka Gelashvili

To Jesus - Rhyme written by Maka Gelashvili

Georgian Prayers - Georgian Orthodox Prayers

Shota Rustaveli "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" - in Georgian language.PDF file.

Shota Rustaveli - "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" in Russian

Jakob Tsultaveli - "Martyrdom of Saint Shushanik"

Shota Roustaveli - "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" in French

The essay "A Georgian Saint - Grigor Feradze (1899 - 1942)" Autor: Lukas Vischer

Gregory Feradze - Etymology of the word "Georgia" from the book - "An account of the Georgian monks and monasteries in Palestine as revealed in the writings of non-Georgian pilgrims."

Ilia Chavchavadze - Luarsab the Martyr

Basic Georgian for Foreign Students" - a 360-page and 30-Lesson illustrated hard-cover textbook intended for use in the classroom or learn Georgian on Your Own. It offers the grammar rules explained in English, practical exercises, dialogues, short stories, information on the recent cultural and political events, DLPT Exam questions, authentic newspaper articles, the audio tape, and more...



2. "Book of Georgian Verbs" - a great 740-page reference hard-cover book which offers the detailed conjugation of the most useful and difficult 300+ verbs, as well as the related words, phrases, idioms, expressions, and word combinations with their English equivalents.

You will appreciate the layout and large-size Georgian font!