Ushguli dialect

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The Ushguli dialect is a regional variety of the Svan language spoken in and around the highland village community of Ushguli in northwestern Georgia.

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Label Occurrences
Ushguli dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of Svan
associatedEthnicity Svan people
associatedWith Caucasus
surface form: Caucasus Mountains
country Georgia
geographicDistribution village community of Ushguli and surrounding area
hasAncestor Common Svan
Proto-Kartvelian language
surface form: Proto-Kartvelian
hasType highland dialect
languageFamily Kartvelian languages
South Caucasian languages
languageStatus endangered
nativeTo Ushguli community
overlapsWith local Georgian language varieties
partOf Svan language
region Svaneti
surface form: Upper Svaneti
sharesFeaturesWith other Svan dialects
spokenBy bilingual speakers of Svan and Georgian in Ushguli
spokenIn Mestia
surface form: Mestia Municipality

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
surface form: Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region

Ushguli
northwestern Georgia
subdivisionOf Svan language
usedBy Svan people in Ushguli
writingSystem Georgian script (for occasional transcription)

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Svan language hasDialect Ushguli dialect