The Kartvelian languages (/kɑːrtˈvɛliən, -ˈviːl-/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South...
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ancestor of the Kartvelian languages, which was spoken by the ancestors of the modern Kartvelian peoples. The existence of such a language is widely accepted...
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Kartvelian may refer to: Anything coming from or related to Georgia (country) Kartvelian languages Kartvelian alphabet, see Georgian alphabet Kartvelian...
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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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Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages and Kartvelian languages are still intact, with the first having the least language security of the three pre-Indo-European...
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spoken Kartvelian language; it serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages. It is the official language of Georgia...
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the four Kartvelian languages also known as South Caucasian languages. Along with Mingrelian, it forms the Zan branch of this Kartvelian language family...
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Georgians (redirect from Kartvelians)
The Georgians, or Kartvelians (/kɑːrtˈvɛliənz/; Georgian: ქართველები, romanized: kartvelebi, pronounced [kʰaɾtʰʷelebi]), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic...
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languages, or Zanuri (Georgian: ზანური ენები) or Colchidian, are a branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages...
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endangered language". It is of particular interest because it has retained many features that have been lost in the other Kartvelian languages. Like all...
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Genderless languages are listed at list of languages by type of grammatical genders. Genderless languages include all the Kartvelian languages (including...
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Mingrelian, or Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა, margaluri nina) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia), primarily...
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Mama and papa (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
Very few languages lack labial consonants (this mostly being attested on a family basis, in the Iroquoian and some of the Athabaskan languages), and only...
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Georgian scripts (redirect from Kartvelian alphabet)
is now the standard script for modern Georgian and its related Kartvelian languages, whereas Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are used only by the Georgian Orthodox...
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reconstructed language which is the common ancestor of Karto-Zan languages. It is hypothesized to have diverged from Proto-Kartvelian during the 19th...
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Mingrelians (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
speak the Mingrelian language, and are typically bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian language family. In the 13th...
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families of the Caucasian languages: Northeast Caucasian, Northwest Caucasian (Abkhaz–Adyghean) and South Caucasian (Kartvelian). This may be shortened...
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Judaeo-Georgian (redirect from Judæo-Georgian language)
captivity. Judaeo-Georgian is the only Kartvelian Jewish dialect. Its status as a distinct language from the Georgian language is the subject of some debate....
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Aorist (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, Volume 1, The Kartvelian Languages (1991, Caravan Books), pp. 313-394. Dee Ann Holisky, "Laz", The Indigenous Languages of...
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language family. Three small families are spoken in the Caucasus: Kartvelian languages, such as Georgian; Northeast Caucasian (Dagestanian languages)...
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variously grouped them with the Kartvelian languages, Elamite, and other non-Semitic and non-Indo-European languages of the region. Igor Diakonoff and...
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the Volga region in the early 17th century. Kartvelian languages (also known as Southwest Caucasian languages), the most common of which is Georgian (c...
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South Caucasian languages (a.k.a. the Kartvelian languages) Things Related to the South Caucasus, or Transcaucasia Proto-Kartvelian language, the common ancestor...
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Demographics of Georgia (country) (redirect from Languages of Georgia)
The most widespread language group is the Kartvelian family, which includes Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Laz. The official languages of Georgia are Georgian...
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Zans (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
of the Kartvelian people, speaking the Zan languages. Kartvelian peoples Georgians Zans (Mingrelians and Laz people) Svans Kartvelian languages Zan languages...
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The term Caucasian languages is generally restricted to these families, which are spoken by about 11.2 million people. Kartvelian, also known as the South...
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There are some 34 to 38 distinct North Caucasian languages.[citation needed] The Kartvelian languages, including Georgian, Zan and Svan, were once known...
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European languages, this polypersonal agreement is found only in Basque, some languages of the Caucasus (especially the Kartvelian languages), Mordvinic...
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similarities between the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Kartvelian languages due to early language contact,[citation needed] as well as some morphological...
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and the Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Laz, Mingrelian, and Svan). In 1884, the German orientalist Fritz Hommel further included all languages of the...
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