Mingrelian

Mingrelian
/min gree"lee euhn, ming-/, n.
a South Caucasian language spoken near the extreme eastern end of the Black Sea.

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  • Mingrelian — may refer to: the Mingrelians the Mingrelian language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directl …   Wikipedia

  • Mingrelian language — Mingrelian მარგალური ნინა margaluri nina Spoken in …   Wikipedia

  • Mingrelian Affair — The Mingrelian Affair, or Mingrelian Case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me) was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian… …   Wikipedia

  • Mingrelian language — also called  Megrelian,         unwritten Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken along the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia. Its speakers call it margaluri nina; in Georgian, it is called megruli ena.       Some scholars believe Mingrelian …   Universalium

  • Mingrelian Nationalist Party — The Mingrelian Nationalist Party (Mingrelian: Margaluri Nacionalisturi Partiashi; Georgian: მეგრული ნაციონალისტური პარტია, Megruli Nacionalisturi Partia), MNP, is a Russia based quasi political party which advocates the secession of the province… …   Wikipedia

  • Mingrelian grammar — Megrelian is one of Kartvelian languages mainly spoken in Western Georgia (the regions of Samegrelo and Abkhazia). In Abkhazia the number of Megrelian speakers declined dramatically in 1990s as a result of heavy ethnic cleansing of Georgian… …   Wikipedia

  • Mingrelian — noun a) A language spoken in parts of Georgia and Abkhazia b) A person who speaks this language Syn: Megrelian …   Wiktionary

  • Mingrelian — ISO 639 3 Code : xmf ISO 639 2/B Code : ISO 639 2/T Code : ISO 639 1 Code : Scope : Individual Language Type : Living …   Names of Languages ISO 639-3

  • mingrelian — min·gre·li·an …   English syllables

  • Mingrelian — /mɪŋˈgriliən/ (say ming greeleeuhn) noun 1. one of a people of Georgia (def. 1) who live in the mountains to the north east of the Black Sea. 2. the language of this group, which is linked to Georgian. –adjective 3. of or relating to the… …  

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