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DoBeS — Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush - Language The Svan language is located in the high mountain region of North West Georgia along the gorges of the rivers Enguri, Cxenis-cqali and Kodori. All speakers of Svan are bilingual speaking Georgian alongside Svan, with the latter being used as a familiar means of communication only while Georgian is the language of administration and school teaching everywhere in the Svan speaking areas. While the Svan population resisted the unpleasant conditions of the high mountain environment they lived in for centuries, the increasing economic difficulties of the last two decades have brought about a strong tendency towards migration which will result in a radical dissolution of the Svan linguistic communities. www.mpi.nl /DOBES/projects/svan/languages   (1387 words)

Svan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Svan language (ლუშნუ ნინ, lushnu nin in Svan; სვანური ენა, svanuri ena in Georgian) is a language spoken in Northwest Georgia. Svan is the most differentiated member of the four South Caucasian (Kartvelian) languages, and is not intelligible with the other three (Georgian, Laz, and Megrelian). Svan is believed to have separated from them in the 2nd millennium BC or earlier, about one thousand years before Georgian branched off from the other two. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svan_language   (408 words)

Megrelian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Megrelian or Mingrelian (მარგალური ნინა, margaluri nina, in Megrelian; მეგრული ენა, megruli ena, in Georgian) is a language spoken in northwest Georgia. Megrelian is one of the South Caucasian languages. Ioseb Kipshidze (1914), Gramatika Megrelskogo (Iverskogo) Yazika ("Grammar of Megrelian (Iverian) Language"). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megrelian_language   (388 words)

Svaneti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While the Svan population resisted the unpleasant conditions of the high mountain environment they lived in for centuries, the increasing economic difficulties of the last two decades and frequent natural disasters – floods and landslides as of April 2005 ([1]) have brought about a strong tendency towards migration. The Svans, indigenous population of the area, are ethnographic group of the Georgian people. The Svan language is being largely replaced by the Georgian proper. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svan   (1266 words)

Georgian language: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) ...Georgian language Georgian language Georgian is the language of the Republic of...Iranian. Georgian is the language of the Republic of Georgia. It is a Caucasian language, with influences from Russian, and to a lesser extent, Iranian. www.encyclopedian.com /ge/Georgian-language.html   (225 words)

Svan language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The Svan language (Lushnu nin in Svan, Svanuri ena or სვანური ენა in Georgian A native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia Svan is the native language of about 30,000 people living in the mountains of Svaneti Svaneti (also known as svanetia or svania in russian and western languages) is a historic province in georgia, in the northwestern part of the country.... Abaza language The abaza language (/abaza byzwa) is a language of the caucasus mountains in the russian autonomous republic of karachay... www.absoluteastronomy.com /s/svan_language   (982 words)

South Caucasian languages -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The South Caucasian or Kartvelian languages are spoken primarily in Georgia, with smaller groups of speakers in Turkey, Iran, and Russia. Svan language (lushnu in Svan, svanuri in Georgian), with approximately 15,000 native speakers in the north-western mountainous region of Georgia. Georgian is the official language of the republic of Georgia (spoken by 90% of the population of this country), and the main language for literary and business use for all Kartvelian speakers in Georgia. psychcentral.com /psypsych/South_Caucasian_languages   (772 words)

South Caucasian languages The South Caucasian languages or Kartvelian languages are a family of languages, spoken mainly in Georgia There is some ongoing work on the possible genetic relationship between speakers of South Caucasian languages and the Basque language, and some recent theories propose a phyletic link between Proto-South Caucasian and Proto-Indo-European. While the South Caucasian languages share SOV word order with Basque, as well as an ergative case, the application of the ergative is somewhat different between the two families. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kartvelian_languages.html   (125 words)

Caucasian languages The family of Caucasian languages comprise two unrelated families of languages, spoken in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, together with representatives of Indo-European and Altaic. They have a number of common features in phonetics and grammar, for example, ergative case and sentence structure, but their genetic relationship is not clear. All of these language families are characterised by an ergative system; also, they tend to be verb-focused, with much information about nouns encoded in the verb. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Caucasian_languages.html   (259 words)

Svaneti Online Research :: Information about Svaneti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Also known as Svanetia or Svania in Russian language and Western world languages) is a historic province in Georgia (country), in the northwestern part of the country. Until the 1930 Mingrelia and Svans had their own census grouping, but were classified under the broader category of Georgian thereafter. Typically bilingual, they use both Georgian language and their own, unwritten Svan language, which together with the Georgian, Megrelian language, and Laz language languages constitute the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian languages. www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/Svan.html   (1090 words)

infofx.info - Caucasian Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram. The Megrelian or Mingrelian language (მარგალური ნინა (Margaluri nina) in Megrelian, მეგრული ენა (Megruli ena) in Georgian), is a language spoken in northwest Georgia. The Abaza language (Абаза Бызшва/Abaza Byzšwa) is a language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia by the Abazins. infofx.info /en/Caucasian+languages   (9260 words)

Caucasus Foundation Along with the consonants that occur in all the Caucasian languages, the Abkhazo-Adyghian languages are characterized by different sets of labialized consonants (formed by rounding the lips), strong (hard or tense) consonants, half-hushing consonants, and velarized consonants (formed with the back of the tongue approaching the soft palate). The consonant systems of the Nakh languages are relatively simple, coinciding, on the whole, with those of the South Caucasian languages (apart from a number of pharyngeal consonants characteristic of all the Nakh languages and a lateral sound peculiar to Bats). All the Caucasian languages have a series of stops of three types--voiced, voiceless aspirated, and glottalized (i.e., pronounced, respectively, with vibrating vocal cords; with vocal cords not vibrating but with an accompanying audible puff of breath; and with accompanying closure of the glottis [space between the vocal cords]). www.kafkas.org.tr /english/kultur/diledebiyat.html   (2513 words)

List of Languages The Sabaean language was thought to have been replaced by the Ge'ez language and the South Arabic alphabet evolved into the Ge'ez alphabet; new archaelogical evidence, however, points to the Sabaean and Ge'ez alphabets sharing a common ancestor, rather than Ge'ez being an offshoot of Sabaean. Is an extinct Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Tmagourt in Southern Tunisia until the mid-twentieth century. Is a Senufo language spoken in southeastern Mali in the Sikasso Region. www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/list/list_s.asp   (4461 words)

Georgian The Georgian literary language went through three periods in its development: the Old Georgian period (5th-12th centuries), was characterized by religious content; the Medieval Georgian period (12th - 18th century) produced a number of epics; the Modern Georgian period that started in the 18th century was the beginning of the Georgian renaissance. Georgian is the literary language for speakers of Svan, Laz, and Mingrelian. Georgian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English. www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Georgian.html   (726 words)

Svaneti - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Since ancient times the Svans have isolated themselves in their stone-built houses, each with a tower, and dealt with invaders pitilessly, avoiding subjugation to all feudal lords and monarchs. The origin of the Svans is disputed but their language has traces of Farsi, the jewelry has Syrian motifs, and the architecture has Italian characteristics leading to claims of Iranian, Mesopotamian, or Ancient Roman ancestors. The Svan language, in common with Laz and Georgian, belongs to the South Caucasian language group but its structure differs from present day Georgian. www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de /~ci4/georgien/swaneti/page2.html   (636 words)

Georgian language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The svan language (lushnu nin in svan, svanuri ena or in georgian)... The laz language (lazuri in laz, chanuri in georgian) is spoken by an ethnic group of the same name on the southeast shore of the fl sea.... The abaza language (/abaza byzwa) is a language of the caucasus mountains... www.absoluteastronomy.com /enc2/georgian_language   (3429 words)

The Official Bock Saga Site This impeccably logical language demonstrates and proves itself, when finding fertile cerebral ground, to be the common origin of all languages spoken today, containing “original instructions” (not a term found in Bock Saga) that humans were to follow in populating and inhabiting the earth, as members, not rulers, of our ecosystem. S…VAN, SVAN, the one with the Sun, the Bock, the breeder, hence Bock and Svan, who became OK and AKA (“ooo-co” and “ah-ka”); ALFADER and MATAR “All Father and Earth Mother, to ALL humans. Van language is architected to enable orchestration of a vast and virtually limitless range of possibilities, and allowed for exquisite definition of essential details of perception among the Vaner, those who migrated outward, southward, from the center, Hel -- the original place of human life -- to populate the globe or bal. www.bocksaga.com /articles/a_barker/bocksaga.html   (5644 words)

The ECLING Project: Svan The Svan language is located in the high mountain region of North West Georgia along the gorges of the rivers Enguri, Cxenis-c̣q̇ali and Ḳodori. Nevertheless, there are considerable gaps in the description of Svan, esp. for the Cholurian variety which was regarded as a subdialect of Lentekhian in former times, and there is practically no material available at all of the Svan language as spoken in the Ḳodori valley which was resettled by speakers of the Upper Svan dialects. The first specimen of spoken Svan which is available to scholarly investigation is the recording of a speaker of Upper Bal made by A. Dirr in 1909, preserved in the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy (Vienna), which was edited by Gippert (1986). titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de /ecling/ecling02.htm   (834 words)

The Kartvelian Language The Kartvelian language family comprises the Georgian, Megrelian, Laz and Svan languages. Svan is spoken in the north-west of Georgia. The four dialects of the Svan language are Lower-Balian, Upper Balian, Lashkhian and Lenteldlian. www.opentext.org.ge /art/kartvel.htm   (593 words)

Georgian language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people[For more, click on this link], especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages The south caucasian languages, also called the kartvelian languages, are spoken primarily in georgia, with smaller groups of speakers in turkey, iran, azerbaijan, russia, ukraine and other... Northeast Caucasian languages The northeast caucasian languages, also called east caucasian, caspian, or dagestan, are a family of languages spoken mostly in dagestan, northern azerbaijan and georgia.... Svan language The svan language (lushnu nin in svan, svanuri ena or in georgian) is a language spoken in northwest georgia.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /g/georgian_language   (3265 words)

Laz language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The Laz language (lazuri in Laz; ლაზური, lazuri, or ჭანური, chanuri, in Georgian) is spoken by an ethnic group of the same name on the Southeast shore of the Black Sea. It is estimated that there are between 50,000 and 500,000 native speakers of Laz in Turkey, in a strip of land extending from Melyat to the Georgian border (officially called Lazistan until 1925), and about 30,000 in Georgia. Laz is one of the four South Caucasian languages, closely related to Megrelian and somewhat less closely to Georgian. www.tocatch.info /en/Chanuri.htm   (564 words)

Linguistics: An Overview There are tricks of expressions which every language surprises us with, there are games and puns and crossword puzzles galore, and we all have a genuine curiosity about where our Language came from and where it stands in a world which has some six thousand actual "Families", containing tens of thousands of individual languages. Since Classical languages are still taught in a thoroughly traditional mode, with little influence from linguistic research in cognitive studies of the languages, this title is perhaps unfortunate, but ultimately quite suitable. Language works with sound, or graphemically with written signs, to put tags on things, so we can use language as a kind of shorthand to catalog the materials of the world, objects and ideas alike. community.middlebury.edu /~harris/linguistics.html   (5444 words)

The Kartvelian Language :: GEORGIA :: ГРУЗИЯ ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The Svan language is considered to have branched off from the common Kartvelian root-language earlier than the others, approximately 5 thousand years ago. The Zan language then split into Megrelian and Laz about 2 thousand years ago, although they have remained closely related since, and many linguists consider them to be dialects of the same language. Georgian is the official language of the Republic of Georgia and is the o­nly written language of the Kartvelian family. www.nukri.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=333&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (635 words)

Svan alphabet, language and prounciation Svan is a South Caucasian language spoken by about 30,000 people in in the northwest of Georgia. There are also several thousand Svan speakers in the republic of Abkhazia. Svan has no official status in Georgia and there is no standard written form. www.omniglot.com /writing/svan.htm   (87 words)

Everything about Svan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) A language of great political importance in the 20th century, Russian is one of the official languages of the United Nations. Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) and the unrecognized Moldovan Republic of Transnistria. The language possesses five vowels, which are written with different letters depending on whether or not the preceding consonant is palatalized. j.sn.wikimiki.org /en/Svan   (11277 words)

South Caucasian languages: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Megrelian The megrelian language (megruli ena in georgian, margaluri nina in megrelian), sometimes called mingrelian, is a language spoken in northwest georgia.... Laz The laz language (lazuri in laz, chanuri in georgian) is spoken by an ethnic group of the same name on the southeast shore of the fl sea.... Svan The svan language (lushnu nin in svan, svanuri ena or in georgian) is a language spoken in northwest georgia.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /s/south_caucasian_languages   (1942 words)

DoBeS — Svan/Udi/Tsova-Tush - Team Her candidate dissertation (1st degree) of 1969 was on the differences of the language of the Svan folk poetry and present day spoken Svan. As a native speaker of Svan (Lower Bal dialect), she has collected a great bulk of original texts which will soon be published both in printed and in electronic form (for a preliminary online edition of a choice of texts, including first specimens from the Kodori area, cf. She is a native speaker of Svan as well (Upper Bal dialect) and will participate in the group led by Iza Chantladze in the present project. www.mpi.nl /DOBES/projects/svan/team   (658 words)

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