Colchidian languages

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Colchidian languages are a subgroup of the Kartvelian language family spoken in western Georgia, including varieties such as Mingrelian and Laz.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Atina-Artasheni dialect 1
Colchidian languages canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kartvelian languages subgroup
language subgroup
alsoKnownAs Zan languages
areEndangered true
areMutuallyIntelligibleToSomeDegree Mingrelian and Laz
linked to: Mingrelian language
distinctFrom Georgian language
Svan language
geographicalDistribution Adjara region of Georgia
linked to: Adjara

Guria region of Georgia
Samegrelo region of Georgia
linked to: Samegrelo

northeastern Turkey
hasAlternativeName Zan subgroup
hasMember Laz language
Mingrelian language
haveLimitedLiteraryTradition true
historicalRegion Colchis
includesVariety Laz
Mingrelian
languageFamily Kartvelian languages
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
split ergativity
namedAfter Colchis
notOfficialLanguageOf Georgia
Turkey
partOf Kartvelian language family
primaryContactLanguage Georgian
linked to: Georgian language
relatedEthnicGroups Laz people
Mingrelians
secondaryContactLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
sharesCommonAncestorWith Georgian language
Svan language
spokenIn Black Sea coastal region
South Caucasus
western Georgia
subclassOf Kartvelian languages
subjectToLanguageShiftTowards Georgian
linked to: Georgian language

Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
typologicalClassification South Caucasian languages
usedAs regional vernaculars
writingSystem Georgian script (for Mingrelian, non-standardized)
Latin script (for Laz, non-standardized)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zan languages alternativeName Colchidian languages
Laz hasDialects Atina-Artasheni dialect
linked to: Colchidian languages