Learned and unlearned lessons from the history of terminology: The Georgian case

Lia Karosanidze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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Georgia is located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Sakartvelo, the self-designation of the country, has been known in Europe as Georgia, the name by which it was referred to in ancient sources. For centuries (presumably, since the 3rd c. BC), it has been a state language. The Bible was translated into Georgian and pieces of original literature were composed in it. The earliest surviving Georgian literary text belongs to the 5th century. The UNESCO acknowledged the Georgian alphabet as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. State laws, royal court rules, and other significant literary and historical texts have been composed in Georgian. The language is spoken by over five million people in Georgia as well as in Turkey, Israel, Greece, Iran. In 1978, under the Soviets, Abkhazian was also declared as another state language.

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