About the Georgian Language
The Georgian language, known as ქართული ენა (kartuli ena), is the official language of Georgia and the native or primary language of approximately 88% of its population, totalling around 3.8 million speakers.
Classification and Related Languages
Georgian is part of the Kartvelian language family, which does not have accepted genetic links to any other language family in the world. It is most closely related to the Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz), with glottochronological studies indicating a split from these languages around 2700 years ago. Svan is a more distant relative, having split off around 4000 years ago.
Writing System
Georgian has its own unique scripts, with the Mkhedruli script being the dominant form in modern usage. This script corresponds closely to Georgian phonemes and does not have case distinctions, although it uses a capital-like effect called Mtavruli for titles and inscriptions.
Phonology and Grammar
Georgian features a rich consonant system, including aspirated, voiced, and ejective stops, affricates, and fricatives. The vowel system consists of five vowels with varying realizations. The language has complex consonant clusters and harmonic clusters. Georgian is an agglutinative language with a complex verb structure that can include up to eight morphemes, exhibiting polypersonalism. It has seven noun cases and employs a left-branching structure with adjectives preceding nouns and postpositions instead of prepositions. Georgian lacks grammatical gender and articles, with definite meanings established through context.
History
The history of the Georgian language is divided into several phases:
- Early Old Georgian: 5th–8th centuries
- Classical Old Georgian: 9th–11th centuries
- Middle Georgian: 11th/12th–17th/18th centuries
- Modern Georgian: 17th/18th century–present
The emergence of Georgian as a written language is linked to the Christianization of Georgia in the mid-4th century, which replaced Aramaic as the literary language. Notable works include the 5th-century Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik and the 12th-century epic poem The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli.
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