Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ lušnu nin; Georgian: სვანური ენა, romanized: svanuri ena) is a Kartvelian language spoken in the western Georgian region of Svaneti primarily...
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speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In...
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mainstream Turkish society. The Kartvelian language family consists of four closely related languages: Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ, lušnu nin), with approximately...
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Svan may refer to: Svan people, an ethnic group of the Georgian people Svan language Svaneti, a region of Georgia Lusaghbyur, Shirak, Armenia, formerly...
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in Svan but not in the other languages. Svan also includes a number of archaisms from the Proto-Kartvelian era, and therefore it is thought that Svan broke...
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languages, also known as Georgian–Zan, are a branch of the Kartvelian language family that contains the Georgian and Zan languages. The Svan language...
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Sulguni (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
Sulguni (Georgian: სულგუნი, სულუგუნი sulguni, suluguni; Svan: სჷლგინ, ლჷჯმარე selgin, lejmare; Mingrelian: სელეგინ selegin) is a brined Georgian cheese...
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which is almost identical to the name given to the Mingrelians by the Svans (მჷ-ზა̈ნ mə-zän). Georgian linguist Akaki Shanidze proposed the name "Colchidian"...
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Georgian dialects and other related Kartvelian languages like Svan language, Mingrelian language, and Laz language. German differentiates between Hochdeutsch/Standarddeutsch...
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Svaneti (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
Svaneti or Svanetia (Svan: შუ̂ან, ლემშუ̂ანიერა shwan, lemshwaniera, Suania in ancient sources; Georgian: სვანეთი Svaneti) is a historic province in the...
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the Odishi Hills and the Colchis Lowlands, from the Black Sea coast to the Svan Mountains and the Tskhenistskali River. Smaller enclaves existed in Abkhazia...
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Burka (Caucasus) (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
Kabardian: щӏакӏуэ shakwe, Ossetian: нымæт nymæt Russian: бурка burka, Svan: ღართ ghärt) is a coat made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of...
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First-foot (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
'trace'). In Mingrelian language, the person is called მაკუჩხური maḳučxuri (from კუჩხი ḳučxi – 'foot'); and in Svan language – მჷჭშხი məč̣šxi (from ჭიშხ...
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Names of Georgia (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
other Kartvelian languages, like Mingrelian, Georgia is referred as საქორთუო sakortuo, in Laz it's ოქორთურა okortura, when in Svan it uses the same name...
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Georgians (category Articles containing Old Georgian-language text)
traditions, manners, dialects and, in the case of Svans and Mingrelians, own regional languages. The Georgian language, with its own unique writing system and extensive...
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Svan towers (Georgian: სვანური კოშკი, romanized: svanuri k'oshk'i) refers to the tower houses built as defensive dwellings in the Georgian historical region...
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Lazica (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
included in it in 131 AD. In the Svan language, the Svans refer to the Mingrelia (Samegrelo) region as Lazan, La- is the Svan territorial prefix and Lazan...
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origin. Georgian is most closely related to the Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz) and more distantly to Svan. Georgian has various dialects, with standard Georgian...
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Evdokia Kozhevnikova (category Svan language)
fieldwork, she acquired considerable fluency in Svan, and produced some 1200 handwritten pages in the language between 1927 and 1936. She never completed her...
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character (possibly from the Georgian letter ჷ used in the Laz and Svan languages spoken in the Southern Caucasus).[citation needed] A similar sign, 𐆓...
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only used in the Svan language. In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 8. It is now obsolete in the Georgian language. Direction of writing:...
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Dede (2017 film) (category Svan-language films)
2 August 2017 (2017-08-02) (Karlovy Vary) Running time 97 minutes Countries Georgia Croatia United Kingdom Ireland Netherlands Qatar Languages Georgian Svan...
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language, along with its relatives Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan, comprise the Kartvelian language family. The initial breakup of Proto-Kartvelian is estimated...
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Gunde Anders Svan (born 12 January 1962) is a Swedish former cross-country skier and auto racing driver. During his cross-country skiing career he won...
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Uvular ejective stop (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
The uvular ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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of Vertical Alignment (VA) panel that claims better viewing angles. Svan language, ISO 639-3 code "sva" SystemVerilog assertions This disambiguation page...
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Palato-alveolar ejective affricate (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨t͡ʃʼ⟩. In some languages it is equivalent to a...
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Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti (category CS1 Georgian-language sources (ka))
if the attendance is at least 10. Georgian language is spoken by the entire population. The Svan language is also spoken in Kvemo Svaneti, mostly by the...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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to 38 distinct North Caucasian languages.[citation needed] The Kartvelian languages, including Georgian, Zan and Svan, were once known as South Caucasian...
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