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{{Short description|Kartvelian language of western Georgia}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox language | name = Mingrelian | nativename = {{lang|xmf|ααα αααα£α α αααα}} {{tlit|xmf|margaluri nina}} | states = [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] | region = [[Mingrelia]]<br>[[Abkhazia]] | ethnicity = [[Mingrelians]] | speakers = 345,000 | date = 2015 | ref = e19 | map = Kartvelian_languages.svg | familycolor = Caucasian | fam1 = [[Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian]] | fam2 = [[Karto-Zan languages|Karto-Zan]] | fam3 = [[Zan languages|Zan]] | script = [[Georgian script]] | map2 = Lang Status 60-DE.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Mingrelian is classified as Definitely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}} | iso3 = xmf | glotto = ming1252 | glottorefname = Mingrelian }} The '''Mingrelian''' or '''Megrelian language''' ({{lang|xmf|ααα αααα£α α αααα}} {{Lang|xmf|margaluri nina}}) is a [[Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian language]] spoken in Western [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] (regions of [[Mingrelia]] and [[Abkhazia]]), primarily by the [[Mingrelians]]. Mingrelian has historically been only a regional language within the boundaries of historical Georgian states and then modern Georgia, and the number of younger people speaking it has decreased substantially, with [[UNESCO]] designating it as a "definitely [[endangered language]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1057.html |access-date=4 April 2018 |website=UNESCO}}</ref>
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