Mingrelian language

Spoken in

  • South Caucasian languages Mingrelian

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The Mingrelian (or me ( n ) grelische language; own name: მარგალური ნინა margaluri nina ) is spoken in the west of Georgia of approximately 500,000 people, making it the second largest of the South Caucasian languages. They, together with the closely related Laz sanische the group this language family.

Mingrelian is no written language; as the written language of the acts Mingrelians the Mingrelian related Georgian language, although there are also attempts to expand the Mingrelian to a written language. In Abkhazia appears Mingrelian a newspaper with the magazine Gali.

Other names for the language are: Georgian and Abkhaz მეგრული ენა Megruli ena агыршәа agərš ° a ( after the medieval state Egrisi ), alternative obsolete names are ( translated): iverische speech, language or language of Odischi of Egrisi.

Dialects

The Mingrelian divided into two main dialects:

  • Samurzaqan (in the east of Abkhazia ), Zugdidi in the northwest ( zugidiši - murzaqaniši ) and
  • Senaki in the southeast ( senaḳiši )

Phonology

In addition to the sounds of the Georgian language the Mingrelian still knows the sounds / ʔ /, / j /, and in the dialect of Samurzaqan - Zugdidi the vowel / ə /.

Grammar

Main article: Mingrelian grammar

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