iberiul-kavkasiuri enaTmecniereba XXXIX

akademikosi qeTevan lomTaTiZe da iberiul-kavkasiuri enaTmecniereba 25
qarTul enaSi f-sa da `†~-s Soris (xdeba maTi `gadanawileba~). sruliad
aSkaraa, rom mxolod amgvari kvalificiuri analizis safuZvelze
SeiZleba iqnes dazRveuli qarTuli ena gaumarTlebeli, enis bunebis
Semryvneli, procesebisagan.
q. lomTaTiZis mier xangrZlivi, 70-wliani samecniero moRvaweobis
ganmavlobaSi Seqmnili naSromebi is sanimuSo gamokvlevebia, romlebic
mniSvnelovanwilad gansazRvraven qarTuli enaTmecnierebis maRal dones,
xolo misi pedagogiuri da sazogadoebrivi moRvaweoba yovelTvis darCeba
qveynis interesebisaTvis gamudmebuli zrunvis Cinebul magaliTad.
AVTANDIL ARABULI, VAZHA SHENGELIA
Academician Ketevan Lomtatidze and Iberian-Caucasian
Linguistics
S u m m a r y
Academician Ketevan Lomtatidze belongs to those researchers who has made
Georgian science famous. Her works which are distinguished by lots of novelties are entered
in the "Gold reserves" of Kartvelological and Caucasiologic literature.
K. Lomtatidze's contribution to studying the Abkhaz-Abaza languages from descriptive
and historical-comparative standpoint should be emphasized. Her first fundamental
research "Formation of basic tenses in Abkhaz", that was published in 1938 in
"Bulletin of ILHMC" made clear, that Abkhaz language had gained talented and erudite
researcher.
Fundamental monographs – "Tapant dialect of Abkhaz" (1944) and "Ashkhar
dialect and its role among other Abkhaz-Abaza dialects" (1954), gained great and
honored scientific authority to the young scholar. These monographs represent a deep
analysis of a phonological system and morphological peculiarities of two Abaza dialects –
a close-kindred language of Abkhaz. Each issue is discussed in comparing with Abkhaz
and in consideration of initial condition. Many dialectal texts which are added to monographs
are too valuable. Recorded dialectal material of this number and of this
exactness has not been obtained and published before by anyone. The scholar could fix
not only that difference in sub-dialects and sayings of Abaza, but fluctuations which are
attested in the speech of different generations. This material gained a valuable historical
documentary significance.
By the mentioned monographs and other works created at those times,
K. Lomtatidze founded historical-comparative studying of the Abkhaz-Abaza languages.
K. Lomtatidze's monograph "Historical-comparative analysis of the Abkhaz-
Abaza languages. I. Phonological system and phonetic processes" (1976) is of sum-