The Mingrelian or Megrelian language (მარგალური ნინა margaluri nina) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia)...
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The Mingrelians (Mingrelian: მარგალეფი, romanized: margalepi; Georgian: მეგრელები, romanized: megrelebi) are an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking ethnic...
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Abkhazia (redirect from Languages of Abkhazia)
tribe of Abkhazian principality, Chách, spoke Mingrelian language, a subset of Kartvelian (Georgian) languages. Abkhazia sought protection from the Russian...
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Mingrelian may refer to: the Mingrelians the Mingrelian language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mingrelian. If an internal...
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Mingrelian is a Kartvelian language from the Caucasus. Like other languages in the area, it contains a large number of grammatical cases and shows ergative...
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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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Caucasus (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Kurdish: Qefqasya, Qefqas Lak: Ккавкказ Kkawkkaz Lezgian: Къавкъаз K'awk'az Mingrelian: კავკაცია K'avk'atsia Ossetian: Кавказ/Каукази Kavkaz/Kaukazi Persian:...
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Kefir (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
likely is another Caucasian origin; compare Georgian კეფირი (k’epiri), Mingrelian ქიფური (kipuri), Ossetian къӕпы (k’æpy), and Karachay-Balkar гыпы (gıpı)...
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Sulguni (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Sulguni (Georgian: სულგუნი, სულუგუნი sulguni, suluguni; Mingrelian: სელეგინი selegini) is a brined Georgian cheese from the Samegrelo region. It has a...
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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 the Romani people (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
the city Soan in Egypt) Kurdish قەرەچی, qaraçı (from Turkish); دۆم, dom Mingrelian: ჩაჩანეფი çaçanephi Spanish: calé In the English-speaking world, Romani...
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others during the 1840s. Zan is the branch that contains the Mingrelian and Laz languages. On the basis of glottochronological analysis, Georgi Klimov...
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List of country-name etymologies (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik, possibly from a cognate with the Mingrelian karta (ქართა, "cattle pen", "enclosed place"). Traditionally taken by...
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Tbilisi (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Kabardian name (Курджы Kwrdžə), while Abkhaz Қарҭ (Ķarţ) is from the Mingrelian ქართი (Karti). Historical affiliations Kingdom of Iberia 450s–530s Sasanian...
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Foxtail millet (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Bengali: কাওন দানা (kaon dana) Hindi: कांगणी (Kangni) Georgian: ღომი (ghomi) Mingrelian: ღუმუ (ghum') or ჩხვერი (chkhver') Gujarati: kang Gurung : Tohro Japanese:...
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Black Sea (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Kara deniz Georgian: შავი ზღვა, romanized: tr, IPA: [ʃavi zʁʷa] Laz and Mingrelian: უჩა ზუღა, romanized: Ucha Zugha, IPA: [ˈutʃä ˈzuɣä], or simply ზუღა,...
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Mingrelia (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
Samegrelo (Georgian: სამეგრელო, romanized: samegrelo [ˈs̪äme̞gɾe̞ɫo̞]; Mingrelian: სამარგალო, romanized: samargalo) is a historic province in the western...
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Glottal stop (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...
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Samurzakanians (category Mingrelians)
Georgian Orthodoxy and bilingual in Abkhaz and Mingrelian. Among the eastern Samurzakanians Mingrelian language was dominant, while Abkhazian predominated...
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Zugdidi (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
appeared in the 17th century. Literally it means "big hill" in the Mingrelian language (from ზუგუ zugu, 'hill'; დიდი didi 'big'). An alternative version...
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Svan, Mingrelian and Laz. The ablaut patterns of Proto-Kartvelian were better preserved in Georgian and (particularly) Svan than in either Mingrelian or...
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The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of...
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Names of Georgia (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
nation's official name is საქართველო sakartvelo. In other Kartvelian languages, like Mingrelian, Georgia is referred as საქორთუო sakortuo, in Laz it's ოქორთურა...
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Principality of Abkhazia (category Articles containing Georgian-language text)
Sharvashidze dynasty spoke Mingrelian language too(along with Abkhaz) "The principal tribe in Abaza are the Chach, who speak Mingrelian too, which is spoken...
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Dental and alveolar ejective stops (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
IPA, the distinction might be written ⟨kʼ, kʼʼ⟩, but it seems that no language distinguishes degrees of ejection. In alphabets using the Latin script...
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exception of Mingrelian, all of them exhibit a greater or lesser degree of ergativity. Many of these features are shared with other languages that have been...
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Dali (goddess) (category Articles containing Mingrelian-language text)
similar figures considered equivalent to Dali, such as the Mingrelian goddess Tkashi-Mapa (Mingrelian: ტყაში-მაფა). She was usually described as a beautiful...
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other alphabets, like Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan. The letters of Mkhedruli correspond closely to the phonemes of the Georgian language. According to the traditional...
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Georgians (category Articles containing Old Georgian-language text)
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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Kartvelian languages also known as South Caucasian languages. Along with Mingrelian, it forms the Zan branch of this Kartvelian language family. The...
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