KARTVELIAN

Meaning of KARTVELIAN in English

(ˈ)kärt|vēlēən, -lyən noun

also karth·li ˈkärtlē ; or kart·vel ˈkärtˌvel

( -s )

Usage: usually capitalized

1. : a member of a group of related peoples of the Caucasus

2. : the South Caucasic language family including Georgian, Mingrelian, Svanetian, and Laz

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KARTVELIAN LANGUAGES — also called South Caucasian languages, or Iberian languages family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken …
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NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS — Proposal of an overarching northern Eurasian language family, still of uncertain validity. Holger Pedersen was the first to suggest that …
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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES — Group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region that are not members of any language families spoken elsewhere in the …
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KARTVEL — noun see kartvelian
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KARTHLI — noun see kartvelian
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NOSTRATIC — nȯˈstrad.ik, nä-, nə-, -atik noun ( -s ) Usage: capitalized Etymology: modification of Danish nostratisk , from Latin nostrat- , …
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SVAN — noun also svane ˈsfän, ˈsvän ; or swan ˈswän ( plural svan or svans ) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Russian …
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LAZ — ˈläz noun or la·ze -zə ; or la·zi -zē ( plural laz or lazes or laze or lazi or lazis …
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TRANSCAUCASIA, HISTORY OF — history of the region from prehistoric times to the present. Food-gathering cultures of Mesolithic type, as represented by discoveries near …
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SVAN LANGUAGE — Svan lunu nin, Georgian svanuri ena unwritten language spoken in the high valleys south of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus. …
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NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS — proposed, but still controversial, language family of northern Eurasia. The term Nostratic was proposed in 1903 by the Danish linguist …
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MINGRELIAN LANGUAGE — also called Megrelian, unwritten Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken along the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia. Its speakers …
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LAZ LANGUAGE — Laz lazuri nena, Georgian canuri ena, also called Chan language unwritten language spoken along the coast of the Black Sea …
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GEORGIAN LANGUAGE — Georgian kartuli ena official language of the Republic of Georgia, whose spoken form has many dialects, usually divided into East …
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GEORGIA, STRAIT OF — narrow passage of the eastern North Pacific between the central east coast of Vancouver Island and the southwest mainland of …
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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Caucasian languages also called Paleo-Caucasian, or Ibero-Caucasian, group of languages indigenous to Transcaucasia and adjacent areas of …
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AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGES — also called Afrasian languages, formerly called Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean languages, family of genetically related languages that developed from a …
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NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS — Proposal of an overarching northern Eurasian language family, still of uncertain validity. Holger Pedersen was the first to suggest that …
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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES — Group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region that are not members of any language families spoken elsewhere in the …
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LANGUAGE — n. 25B6; noun the structure of language : SPEECH, writing, communication, conversation, speaking, talking, talk, discourse; words, vocabulary. the English …
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