Mingrelian
Kartvelian language, also named “Megrelian” or “Iverian” (“iveriuli ena” in Georgian), spoken in North-Western Georgia
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Summary
Mingrelian is a natural language[1]. Mingrelian draws 1,993 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #158 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti[3], Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia[4], Imereti[5], Tbilisi[6]
- Country: Republic of Abkhazia[7], Georgia[8], Soviet Union[9]
- Instance of: modern language[10]
- Subclass of: Zan[11]
- Writing system: Georgian scripts[12], Asomtavruli[13], Nuskhuri[14], Mkhedruli[15]
- Commons category: Mingrelian language[16]
- Wikimedia language code: xmf[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mingrelian language[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 345,530[19]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20]
- Native label: მარგალური ნინა[21]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[22]
- Indigenous to: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti[23], Tsageri Municipality[24], Abkhazia[25], Guria[26], Imereti[27]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/XMF[28]
- Has grammatical case: destinative[29]
- Ethnologue language status: 6a Vigorous[30]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[31]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[32], WikiProject Georgia[33], WikiProject Caucasia[34]
Why It Matters
Mingrelian has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Mingrelian is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]