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

torical native language for the Megrelians-Laz or Svans is the Georgian
language which has a centuries-old literary tradition.
Declaration of regional idioms as independent languages will result
in the need for facing the issue of status of the relevant socium (society):
It is widely known that a language and a nation function as mutually
defining terms: a nation (people) possesses a language, while ceparate
groups (communities) of the very nation possess dialects
(idioms).
"Despite ethnographic specificities and a large number of variants
of the linguistic system (dialects) no nations or languages have emerged
in the Kartvelian reality, - a language is created by a nation, though at
the same time, a language itself creates a nation… neither a linguistic
system (differing from the literary language) has been established" (R.
Sherozia, 2007, p. 391). Based on the above discussed issues, we believe,
it is more logical to consider the Kartvelian linguistic world as a
unified system:
There is one national language (one linguistic system) and tens of
its variants (a literary language and its dialects).
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