Zan had already split into Mingrelian and Laz variants by early modern times, however, and it is not customary to speak of a unified Zan language today.
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The Russian Empire intervened on Mingrelian side that resulted in the fall of Solomon's kingdom and incorporation of Mingrelia into the Tsarist empire as an autonomous entity.
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The Abkhazian princes engaged in incessant conflicts with the Mingrelian potentates, their nominal suzerains, and the borders of both principalities fluctuated in the course of these wars.
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He returned definitely to Georgia in 1920, and settled in his native village with his wife, an Englishwoman named Kate Walter Ball, whom he taught Mingrelian.
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"' Georgian "'is a Unicode block containing the Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli Georgian characters used to write Modern Georgian, Svan, and Mingrelian languages.
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In the summer of 1999, books of the Georgian poet Murman Lebanidze were burned in the Mingrelian capital, Zugdidi, after he made disparaging remarks about the Mingrelian language.
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In the summer of 1999, books of the Georgian poet Murman Lebanidze were burned in the Mingrelian capital, Zugdidi, after he made disparaging remarks about the Mingrelian language.
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The earliest linguistic studies of Mingrelian include a phonetic analysis by Aleksandre Tsagareli ( 1880 ), and grammars by Ioseb Kipshidze ( 1914 ) and Shalva Beridze ( 1920 ).
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Mingrelian has been written with the Georgian alphabet since 1864, especially in the period from 1930 to 1938, when the Mingrelians enjoyed some cultural autonomy, and after 1989.
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Almost all speakers are bilingual; they use Mingrelian mainly for familiar and informal conversation, and Georgian ( or, for expatriate speakers, the local official language ) for other purposes.
