"evropuli qartia saqarTvelo "European Charter for Regional or ...

pert and P. J. Hillery who are supported by extensive grant schemes
deceive the world as though the realm of the Georgian language does
not include regions such as: Samegrelo, Svaneti, Lazeti, Imerkhevi,
Tskhinvali region, Apkhazeti, etc. and as though the Megrels, the Laz,
the Meskhs, the Svans, etc. are not Georgian.
Sadly, some of the Georgian or foreign scientists of our
generation who enjoy "grants" do not mind such politicized qualifications.
I believe academic, depoliticized descriptions and qualifications
and qualifications of the linguistic-ethnic situation of Georgia
should be attributed major importance in the process of integration
of Georgia in the civilized world. If the international information
field will not become free of the Russian imperial definitions
and qualifications (which, mechanically, following the soviet
"scientists" still dominate the international information network,
the territorial integrity as well as Georgian identity will face
insuperable obstacles; namely, if the reality is avoided and the
Georgians are indicated in the ECRML ratification documents as
disintegrated linguistically-ethnically, the powerful empire interested
in fragmenting Georgia will further easily segment Georgia’s
territory in the decade to come.
Georgians will never ever tolerate violation: Georgian (/citizens
of Georgia) public figures, scientists, writers or the wider audience always
struggled against imperial aggression. The samples below are citations
that include extensive excerpts from letters by Iakob Gogebashvili,
Niko Marr, Tedo Sakhokia and Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.
Iakob Gogebashvili dedicated a special article to the issue of correlation
between the native language of Georgian and the Megrelian dialect
("Language and Dialect"), stating that: "Every nation has a principal
language called a native language that is a shared treasure for all parts of the
nation and community dialects used locally. Rationality of the humankind has
assigned the following purposes to the language factors in the sphere of education:
"all schools use a native language as a language of instruction while applying
local dialects to explain and clarify those common words that are difficult
to understand for local children. This way thorough knowledge of the na-
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