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==History== Mingrelian is one of the [[Kartvelian languages]]. It is closely related to [[Laz language|Laz]], from which it has become differentiated mostly in the past 500 years, after the northern (Mingrelian) and southern (Laz) communities were separated by Turkic invasions. It is less closely related to Georgian, the two branches having separated in the first millennium BC or earlier, and even more distantly related to [[Svan language|Svan]], which is believed to have branched off in the 2nd millennium BC or earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulze |first=Wolfgang |date=2009 |title=Languages in the Caucasus |url=http://wschulze.userweb.mwn.de/lgxcauc.pdf}}</ref> Mingrelian is [[mutually intelligible]] only with [[Laz language|Laz]]. Some linguists refer to Mingrelian and Laz as [[Zan languages]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=K2olxuri Ena (Colchian Language) |url=http://www.icgl.org/articles/ReviewofColchian.doc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301071254/http://www.icgl.org/articles/ReviewofColchian.doc |archive-date=March 1, 2012 |format=DOC}}</ref> Zan had already split into Mingrelian and Laz variants by early modern times, however, and it is not customary to speak of a unified Zan language today. The oldest surviving texts in Mingrelian date from the 19th century, and are mainly items of ethnographical literature. The earliest linguistic studies of Mingrelian include a phonetic analysis by [[Alexander von Zagareli|Aleksandre Tsagareli]] (1880), and grammars by [[Ioseb Kipshidze]] (1914) and [[Shalva Beridze]] (1920). From 1930 to 1938 several newspapers were published in Mingrelian, such as ''[[Kazakhishi Gazeti]]'', ''[[Komuna (Megrelian newspaper)|Komuna]]'', ''[[Samargalosh Chai]]'', ''[[Narazenish Chai]]'', and ''[[Samargalosh Tutumi]]''. More recently, there has been some revival of the language, with the publication of a MingrelianβGeorgian dictionary by [[Otar Kajaia]], a Mingrelian-German dictionary by Otar Kajaia and [[Heinz FΓ€hnrich]], and books of poems by [[Lasha Gakharia]], [[Edem Izoria]], [[Lasha Gvasalia]], [[Guri Otobaia]], Giorgi Sichinava, [[Jumber Kukava]], and [[Vakhtang Kharchilava]], journal [[Skani]], Mingrelian Wikipedia, as well as books and magazines published by Jehovah's Witnesses.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ααα°αααα¨ ααα¬αααα€αα¨ ααα¨αα¨αα£ααααα α αααααα£α α α¬ααααα€α αα αα£α ααααα€α |url=https://www.jw.org/xmf/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A3%E1%83%91%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98/ |access-date=4 April 2018 |website=jw.org}}</ref>
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