to Modern Georgian today. Its development as a written language began with the Christianization of Georgia in the 4th century. Georgian phonology features...
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Judeo-Georgian, known endonymically as Qivruli (Georgian: ყივრული ენა) and also known as Gruzinic, is the traditional Georgian dialect spoken by the Georgian...
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dated to c. 430 AD. Georgian scripts are used to write all Kartvelian languages. Georgian is the official language of Georgia (spoken by 90% of the...
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The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ...
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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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group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms. Significant Georgian diaspora communities are...
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The Georgian Jews (Georgian: ქართველი ებრაელები, romanized: kartveli ebraelebi, Hebrew: יהדות גאורגיה, romanized: Yahadut Georgia) are a community of...
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historically been only a regional language within the boundaries of historical Georgian states and then modern Georgia, and the number of younger people...
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country is Georgia per Article 2 of the Georgian Constitution. In Georgia's two official languages (Georgian and Abkhaz), the country is named საქართველო...
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Romanization of Georgian is the process of transliterating the Georgian language from the Georgian script into the Latin script. This system, adopted in...
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The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian (Georgian: წინარექართველური ენა, romanized: ts'inarekartveluri ena, Georgian: პროტოქართველური ენა...
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widespread language group is the Kartvelian family, which includes Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Laz. The official languages of Georgia are Georgian, with...
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official language (Turkish or Georgian). Laz is unique among the Kartvelian languages in that most of its speakers live in Turkey rather than Georgia. While...
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coalition also called Georgian Dream, which included both pro-Western liberal and anti-NATO nationalist parties. Subsequently, the Georgian Dream party (independent...
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Kartvelian languages—Mingrelian, Svan and Laz—are sisters to Georgian, but are only partly intelligible to speakers of Standard Georgian or other Georgian dialects...
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Look up Georgian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Georgian may refer to: Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) Georgians, an indigenous...
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Georgian languages may refer to: Languages of Georgia, all languages spoken in Georgia (the country in the Caucasus) Kartvelian languages, a family of...
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Georgian Airways (Georgian: ჯორჯიან ეარვეისი, romanized: jorjian earveisi), formerly Airzena, is the privately owned flag carrier of Georgia, with its...
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split into the ancestor of the Zan languages and the Georgic languages (ancestor of Judaeo-Georgian and Georgian and dialects) around the 8th century...
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devised by a Russian/Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr lasted for 2 years 1926–1928 (during the Latinization campaign). The Georgian script was adopted and...
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The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Georgia, the Georgian SSR, or simply Georgia, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union...
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Georgian Sign Language (Georgian: ქართული ჟესტური ენა, romanized: kartuli zhest'uri ena) is the national sign language of the deaf in the country of Georgia...
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Orthodox Church of Georgia Georgian-language Web Site regarding Georgian Orthodoxy Georgian Orthodox Church – Encyclopædia Britannica Georgian Orthodox Churches...
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use as the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church and for the most part is still intelligible. Spoken Old Georgian gave way to what is classified...
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Georgian grammar has many distinctive and extremely complex features, such as split ergativity and a polypersonal verb agreement system. Georgian has...
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of Georgian Orthodox Church in the constitution, outlawing most major opposition parties; joining the European Union whilst "playing by Georgian rules";...
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Georgian mythology (Georgian: ქართული მითოლოგია, romanized: kartuli mitologia) refers to the mythology of pre-Christian Georgians (/kʌrtˈvɛliənz/; Georgian:...
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Flag of the Georgian SSR (1922–1937) Flag of the Georgian SSR (1937–1951) Flag of the Georgian SSR (1951–1990) During the Soviet period, Georgia adopted several...
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Iranian Georgians or Persian Georgians (Georgian: ირანის ქართველები; Persian: گرجیهای ایران) are Iranian citizens who are ethnically Georgian, and are...
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Shida Kartli within the Georgian kingdom of Iberia. In the middle ages, the territory was disputed between various Georgian principalities and kingdoms...
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