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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kartvelian_languagesKartvelian languages - Wikipedia

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   kart1248. The Kartvelian languages ( / kɑːrtˈvɛliən, - ˈviːl -/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -⁠VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages [1]) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia.

   • Proto-Kartvelian Language

     This has survived in Svan but not in the other languages....

   • Nostratic

     These languages include, among others, Indo-European,...

   • Georgian language

     Georgian ( ქართული ენა, romanized: kartuli ena, pronounced...

   • Laz language

     Laz is one of the four Kartvelian languages also known as...

   • Kartvelian

     Kartvelian. Kartvelian may refer to: Anything coming from or...

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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. [1] There are around 5.2 million speakers of Kartvelian languages.

   • Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families

   • Proto-language: Proto-Kartvelian

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   Is Kartvelian a language?

   • The Kartvelian family has no known relation to any other language family, making it one of the world's primary language families. The most widely spoken of these languages is Georgian.

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   Where do Kartvelian speakers live?

   • The majority of Kartvelian speakers live in the country of Georgia and northeastern Turkey (Fig. 1 ). The Megrelian and Laz languages constitute a branch of the South Caucasian languages, which is termed Zan. Most scholars accept the South Caucasian family tree, in which Svan is sister to the clade of the remaining three languages.

   The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights

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   When did the Kartvelian language break up?

   • The Georgian language, along with its relatives Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan, comprise the Kartvelian language family. The initial breakup of Proto-Kartvelian is estimated to have been around 2500–2000 B.C., with the divergence of Svan from Proto-Kartvelian (Nichols, 1998).

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   Is Georgian a Kartvelian language?

   • Among the Kartvelian languages, Georgian is most closely related to the so-called Zan languages ( Megrelian and Laz ); glottochronological studies indicate that it split from the latter approximately 2700 years ago. Svan is a more distant relative that split off much earlier, perhaps 4000 years ago.

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4. www.nature.com › articles › s41598/023/45500-wThe time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages ...

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   Nov 30, 2023 · The divergence of Kartvelian languages is strongly associated with differences in the rate of technological expansions in relation to landscape heterogeneity, as well as the emergence of state-run ...