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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speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In...
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speakers are shifting to Turkish. The Kartvelian language family consists of four closely related languages: Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ, lušnu nin), with approximately...
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Svan may refer to: Svan people, an ethnic group of the Georgian people Svan language Svaneti, a region of Georgia Lusaghbyur, Shirak, Armenia, a village...
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in Svan but not in the other languages. Svan also includes a number of archaisms from the Proto-Kartvelian era, and therefore it is thought that Svan broke...
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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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Svaneti (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
Svaneti (Svan: შუ̂ან, ლემშუ̂ანიერა; shwan, lemshwaniera, and Suania in ancient sources; Georgian: სვანეთი [ˈs̪ʷän̪e̞t̪ʰi] Svaneti) is a historic province...
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Georgian dialects and other related Kartvelian languages like Svan language, Mingrelian language, and Laz language. German differentiates between Hochdeutsch/Standarddeutsch...
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Names of Georgia (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
other Kartvelian languages, like Mingrelian, Georgia is referred as საქორთუო sakortuo, in Laz it's ოქორთურა okortura, when in Svan it uses the same name...
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origin. Georgian is most closely related to the Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz) and more distantly to Svan. Georgian has various dialects, with standard Georgian...
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Sanni (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
from the name still given to Mingrelian people in the Svan language Zan (see also Zan language). In the opinion of S. Dzhanashia, San was indeed an endonym...
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Burka (Caucasus) (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
Kabardian: щӏакӏуэ shakwe, Ossetian: нымæт nymæt Russian: бурка burka, Svan: ღართ ghärt) is a coat made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of...
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Iberian language family, with a total of about 4.3 million speakers. Includes Georgian, the official language of Georgia, with four million speakers, Svan with...
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the 8th letter of the three Georgian scripts. It is only used in the Svan language, where it is currently used for /eː/. In the system of Georgian numerals...
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Lazica (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
included in it in 131 AD. In the Svan language, the Svans refer to the Mingrelia (Samegrelo) region as Lazan, La- is the Svan territorial prefix and Lazan...
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Kevin Tuite (category Svan language)
orientation in the South Caucasian languages. (Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, 12). München: Lincom Europa. 1998 Svan (Languages of the World / Materials, vol...
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character (possibly from the Georgian letter ჷ used in the Laz and Svan languages spoken in the Southern Caucasus).[citation needed] A similar sign, 𐆓...
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Georgians (category Articles containing Old Georgian-language text)
traditions, manners, dialects and, in the case of Svans and Mingrelians, own regional languages. The Georgian language, with its own unique writing system and extensive...
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Gebi, Georgia (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
Gebi (Georgian: ღები; literally from Svan language: "depression") is an old village in the northern part of Georgia, in the region of Racha. From the...
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First-foot (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
'trace'). In Mingrelian language, the person is called მაკუჩხური maḳučxuri (from კუჩხი ḳučxi – 'foot'); and in Svan language – მჷჭშხი məč̣šxi (from ჭიშხ...
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the Odishi Hills and the Colchis Lowlands, from the Black Sea coast to the Svan Mountains and the Tskhenistskali River. Smaller enclaves existed in Abkhazia...
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Dede (2017 film) (category Svan-language films)
2 August 2017 (2017-08-02) (Karlovy Vary) Running time 97 minutes Countries Georgia Croatia United Kingdom Ireland Netherlands Qatar Languages Georgian Svan...
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which is almost identical to the name given to the Mingrelians by the Svans (მჷ-ზა̈ნ mə-zän). Georgian linguist Akaki Shanidze proposed the name "Colchidian"...
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An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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language, along with its relatives Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan, comprise the Kartvelian language family. The initial breakup of Proto-Kartvelian is estimated...
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of Vertical Alignment (VA) panel that claims better viewing angles. Svan language, ISO 639-3 code "sva" SystemVerilog assertions This disambiguation page...
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2023. "Kalmyk". Center for Language Technology. Retrieved 29 August 2024. "Kartvelian languages | Kartvelian, Georgian, Svan & Laz". Britannica. Retrieved...
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Palato-alveolar ejective affricate (category Articles containing Svan-language text)
used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨t͡ʃʼ⟩. In some languages it is equivalent to a...
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Gagra (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
Georgian scholars, Gagra is derived from Gakra meaning "walnut" in the Svan language, while Gakari/Kakari means "a place with walnut trees", which is in...
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Indus script Evdokia Kozhevnikova, ethnologist whose writings on the Svan language were rediscovered in the 2010s Nikolay Krushevsky, co-inventor of the...
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