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The Knight in the Panther’s Skin: A 12th-Century Time Capsule

While English speakers struggle to decipher texts from just 500 years ago, modern Georgians can read their 12th-century national epic…

1 week ago

Why “Mama” Means Father: The Georgian Baby Talk Reversal

In almost every language on Earth, the sound /m/ is universally associated with "mother" due to the biological mechanics of…

1 week ago

Gvprtskvni! Survival Strategies for Georgian Consonant Clusters

Discover the "Mount Everest" of linguistics: the Georgian word *gvprtskvni*, which features a staggering eight consonants in a row. This…

1 week ago

The Georgian Consonant Clusters

Georgian is famous for jaw-dropping consonant clusters like `gvprtskvni` ("you peel us"), which seem to defy the rules of pronunciation.…

3 months ago

Georgia’s Living Alphabet

At first glance, the Georgian alphabet, Mkhedruli, appears less like a set of letters and more like a collection of…

6 months ago

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