The Georgian language, like most, is one that has an interesting history. Georgian is the he most widely spoken Kartvelian language, and has its roots in the Caucasian language family. Unusually, this language has been fairly static geographically, remaining mostly found within the Caucasus Mountains and in the Kura River Valley areas.

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The languages indigenous to the Caucasus area derive from a Proto-Caucasian language. from there there's debate among linguists and scholars over the language evolution, but there's general consensus that this Proto-Caucasian language branched off into 3 main language groups - of which Kartvelian is one of those branches. 

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While we don't really know where the Georgian script originated from, we do know that the Georgian language has an unbroken literary tradition that is around 1500 years old, with the earliest known writings dating from around the 5th Century A.D. 

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Today, there are about 4 million native speakers.

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To hear the 1st paragraph of the 1st book of this language, Click Here.