| 1. | Many aspects of the Mingrelian Affair are still not completely understood.
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| 2. | There are hundreds of thousands of Mingrelian refugees from Abkhazia in Georgia.
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| 3. | Some linguists refer to Mingrelian and Laz as grouped within the Zan languages.
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| 4. | In 1623, Levan, with a combined Mingrelian-Darejan ( 1629 ).
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| 5. | In 1802, he rallied the Turkish support and captured the Mingrelian fort of Anaklia.
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| 6. | Mingrelian has nine grammatical cases : benefactive.
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| 7. | The Mingrelians speak the Mingrelian language, and are mostly bilingual also in Kartvelian language family.
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| 8. | Mingrelian is generally written with the Georgian alphabet, but has no written standard or official status.
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| 9. | The oldest surviving texts in Mingrelian date from the 19th century, and are mainly ethnographical literature.
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| 10. | For instance, those pages state that Laz, Svan, and Mingrelian are " dialects of Georgian ".
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