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Georgian (also Kartvelian; Kartuli in Georgian) is the official language of Georgia, a republic in the Caucasus. For the origin of the name, see the Georgia article.

Georgian is the primary language of about 4,000,000 people in Georgia itself (83% of the population), and of another 3.4 million people abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Russia, USA and Europe with smaller communities in Iran and Azerbaijan). It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages (Svans, Megrelians, and the Laz).

History of the Georgian language

Georgian is believed to have separated from Megrelian and Laz in the third millennium BC. Based on the degree of change, linguists (e.g. G.Klimov, T.Gamkrelidze, G.Machavariani) conjecture that the earliest split occurred in the second millennium BC or earlier, separating Svan from the other languages. Megrelian and Laz separated from Georgian roughly a thousand years later.

Georgian has a very rich literary tradition. The oldest surviving literary text in Georgian is the "Martyrdom of Saint Shushaniki, the Queen" (Tsamebay tsmindisa Shushanikisi, dedoplisa) by Iakob Tsurtaveli, from the 5th century AD.

GEORGIAN: a language of Georgia
SIL code: GEO
ISO 639-1: ka
ISO 639-2(B): geo
ISO 639-2(T): kat

Population 3,901,380 speakers (98%), out of 3,981,000 in the ethnic group in Georgia (1993 UBS). Population total all countries 4,103,000.
Region 69,700 square miles. Also spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan.

Alternate names KARTULI, GRUZINSKI
Dialects IMERETIAN, RACHA-LEXCHXUM (LECHKHUM), GURIAN, ADZHAR (ACHARIAN), IMERXEV KARTLIAN, KAXETIAN (KAKHETIAN), INGILO, TUSH, XEVSUR (KHEYSUR), MOXEV (MOKHEV), PSHAV, MTIUL, FEREJDAN, MESKHUR-JAVAKHURI.

Classification South Caucasian, Georgian.

Comments Imerxev is in Turkey, Ferejdan in Iran. The Meskhi are ethnically Georgian, speak Georgian, are Eastern Orthodox, and live in southwestern Georgia. Adzhai Muslims are in Armenia. South Caucasian is also called 'Kartvelian.' National language. Grammar. SVO. Its own script is called Mkhedruli. Georgian Orthodox Church, some Sunni and Shi'a Muslim (Acharian dialect). Bible 1743-1989.