The Language Situation in Georgia

The aim of the project is to throw light on the language situation in one of the Transcaucasian republics: Georgia.  An interesting object of research is the fact that two major languages - Georgian and Russian - for a long time have been competing in different spheres of society along side with a number of other languages with different status, different writing systems, different religions.  The languages include:

• Indoeuropean: Armenian, Ossetic, Greek, Kurdish.
• Turkic: Azerbaijani.
• West Caucasian: Abkhaz.
• East Caucasian: Tsova tush, Chechen, Lezgian.
• Kartvelian: Megrelian and Svan.