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    Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January...
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    Mingrelian, or Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა, margaluri nina) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia), primarily...
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    Mingrelians (redirect from Megrelians)
    1984), a basketball player Mingrelian affair Laz people Alternately, Megrelians, Mingrels or Megrels Including Abkhazia, where 46,000 Mingrelians and...
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    Amerijibi-Mullen, Rusudan, ed. (2006). K'olxuri (megrul-lazuri) ena: Colchian (Megrelian-Laz) language. ICGL (Universali: Tbilisi, Georgia), www.icgl.org. (see...
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    Georgia (country) (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from June 2022)
    distributed by Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-84511-338-4. Kajaia, O. (2001). Megrelian-Georgian dictionary (in Georgian). Vol. 1. Tbilisi.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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    Georgian territory. The linguistic evidence for the above hypothesis is the Megrelian word for “heart” – “guri” (Georgian: “guli”). Subtropic farming and tourism...
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    languages, Georgian is most closely related to the so-called Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz); glottochronological studies indicate that it split from the...
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    literally translates as “cow’s meat kharcho.” In the Samegrelo region, Megrelian kharcho is made as a stew rather than a soup. Rice is excluded and it...
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    Kakha Shengelia and Valeri Silogava the word ოშკი (ošḳi) derives from Megrelian word შქა (shka), meaning "being in the middle"; according to Merab Chukhua...
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  • also contain several songs in Turkish, Armenian, Homshetsi, Georgian and Megrelian. He fought for nature and was against the construction of a nuclear reactor...
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    estimates ranging from 7th to 11th century. Lashkendari or Lashqendari is a Megrelian word and means shaded or north side shkendi/shqerdi/shqedi - north side...
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    police, and a few shops. During the Soviet period a newspaper in the Megrelian language called "Narazenish Chai" was published in the village. Eleonora...
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    November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2016. (in Georgian) Kajaia, Otar. Megrelian-Georgian Dictionary, vol. 1-3. Tbilisi, 2001-2004. Online version from...
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  • Index of language articles (category Wikipedia indexes)
    This is a partial index of Wikipedia articles treating natural languages, arranged alphabetically and with (sub-) families mentioned. The list also includes...
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    Ubykh language (category Wikipedia articles that are too technical from September 2022)
    origin ( ← Abkhaz agər-wa 'lower cast of peasants; slave', literally 'Megrelian'). In the scheme of Northwest Caucasian evolution, despite its parallels...
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    commonly have the suffix "-dze", (e.g. Laba'dze) Georgian for "son". Megrelian surnames usually end in "-ia", "-ua" or "-ava". Other location-specific...
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  • Kaskian might belong to the Zan family of languages, and have affinities to Megrelian or Laz. In 2023, D. Sasseville presented an unknown language preserved...
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  • known for mineral waters and contains the Shuru Ghumu (Always Dark in the Megrelian language), the 3rd largest cave in the Caucasus. The valley has various...
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    Colchis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the Georgian Nation, Book I. pp. 44–47. Colchis was mainly inhabited by Megrelian-Laz speaking tribes. Then Colchians conquered the land of the Svans. Tsetskhladze...
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    Motena Cave Natural Monument. The root of the name Barda or Balda in Megrelian language means a hill. Residents of the village Barda were named Bardelebi...
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