The Kartvelian language family consists of four closely related languages: Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ, lušnu nin ), with approximately 35,000–40,000 native speakers in Georgia, mainly in the northwestern... Georgian-Zan (also called Karto-Zan ) Georgian (ქართული ენა, kartuli ena) with approximately 4 million ...
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Georgian is the official language of Georgia and the main...
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Proto-Kartvelian Proto-Karto-Zan Zan Svan Mingrelian Laz...
- Proto-Kartvelian
The ablaut patterns of Proto-Kartvelian are highly similar...
- Zan
The Zan languages, or Zanuri (Georgian: ზანური ენები), are a...
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The Kartvelian languages are a language family. They are spoken in Georgia. The main language in the family is Georgian. There are two branches of Kartvelian languages: the Karto-Zan languages and the Svan language. There are around 5.2 million speakers of Kartvelian languages. References
- Western Trans-Caucasus, Northeast Anatolia
- Proto-Kartvelian
- One of the world's primary language families
- Svan, Karto-Zan
Pages in category "Kartvelian languages" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ).
Svans, Lazs, Megrels are ethnic Georgians, ethnographic groups of Georgian people. Svan, Laz and Megrelian are parts of Kartvelian (Georgian) language group of the Iberian-Caucasian language family, dialects of old Georgian language. Native language for all Georgians (all ethnographic groups of Georgian people) is a GEORGIAN LANGUAGE.
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- English: Distribution of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages
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Media in category "Kartvelian languages" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Javakhian Dialect of Georgian Language, Gr. Beridze, Tbilisi, 1988.jpg 1,678 × 2,295; 4.01 MB
- Ibero-Caucasian languages, Nostratic languages
The Kartvelian languages are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia, with large groups of native speakers in Russia, Iran, the United States, Europe, Israel, and northeastern parts of Turkey. There are approximately 5.2 million speakers of Kartvelian languages worldwide. The Kartvelian family is not known to be related to any other language family, making it one of the world's primary language families. The first literary source in a Kartvelian languag
In Fleming's model, Borean includes ten different groups: Afrasian (his term for Afroasiatic), Kartvelian, Dravidian, a group comprising Sumerian, Elamitic, and some other extinct languages of the ancient Near East, Eurasiatic (a proposal of Joseph Greenberg that includes Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and several other language families ...
- None
- Disputed
- Proposed language family
- Eurasia, sometimes the Americas
Mar 20, 2020 · The Kartvelian language family consists of four closely related languages: Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ, lušnu nin ), with approximately 35,000–40,000 native speakers in Georgia, mainly in the northwestern... Georgian-Zan (also called Karto-Zan) Georgian (ქართული ენა, kartuli ena) with approximately 4 million ...
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The Kartvelian languages are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia. There are approximately 5.2 million Kartvelian speakers worldwide, with large groups in Russia, Iran, the United States, Europe, Israel, and northeastern Turkey. The Kartvelian family has no known relation to any other language family, making it one of the world's primary language famil... en.wikipedia.org
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