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Cf.: historically, the literary language for all Kartvelian communities
378 was and still is a standard language based on the common
Georgian/common Kartvelian language. The idiom of the population of
any Georgian regions cannot be equaled to this common national phenomenon.
In addition, High German and Low German are historically
interrelated as parallel linguistic data, one of which became a dominant
official language in the near past; cf.: compared to the archaic
Georgian literary language – Georgia’s ecclesiastical/state language,
all other well-known Kartvelian idioms represent secondary formations;
namely, the primary types of phonematic structure, morphological
patterns or stems are preserved in the archaic literary language – the
historical official language of the Georgians. As for the Megrelian-Laz,
Svan, Khevsurian or Meskhian variants, they are formed on the basis of
the archaic Georgian/Kartvelian language. Accordingly, a source language
and a result of its transformation – an oral local variant 379
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not be regarded as parallel language variants.
It is noteworthy that the high urgency of modern global information
network limits not only the local dialects but also the official language
of some geopolitically challenged European countries; accordingly,
special measures are to be introduced for maintenance and protection
of both Georgian standard language and oral idioms of the Georgians;
for instance, in our case, the Georgian dialects indeed require urgent
attention whether they exist within or beyond the state borders of
Georgia. Therefore, the state must assume extraordinary measures;
namely:
• The best protective mechanism for Megrelian-Laz, Svan, Taoan,
Khevsurian or other Kartvelian sub-systems would be teaching these
idiom within the format of the Georgian (Kartvelian) varieties on every
level of secondary and higher education (the plan for enhanced prestige
of these idioms proposed by Jonathan Wheatley will result in adverse
effects).
• The Georgian dialectal lexicon (Megrelian, Laz, Svan, Khevsurian,
Taoan, Acharan, Her, Kakhetian, Tushian, etc.) must be extensively in-
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A community – any of the historical-ethnographic groups of the Georgians.
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Cf.: High- and Low German were the parallel standard variants of the same Protolanguage
even in the near past.
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