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Sources, editing the private letters promotes establishing a strong basis for scientific The article highlights the importance of the scholarly edition of the famous personsВ’ epistolary legacy: writers, historians or public figures, emphasizes that together with the historical documents, epigraphic monuments and editions of the corpus of different other writing research: gathering-systematizing them in one edition and deeper examining is the best source for familiarizing with the private life and public work of p...

In the presented work there have been investigated the issues of the endangered language ecology on the example of the Tsovatush (Bats) language, the member of the Nakh branch of the North Caucasian language family, spoken by the population of only half the village Zemo Alvani, situated in Georgia, namely, in Akhmeta region. Research focus is on the sociolinguistic factors of language endangerment. For revealing the reasons causing the danger of Tsovatush language and the stimulating characteristics for switching ...

The article deals with phonetic characteristics of Georgian language islands, embedded in Tsovatush (Bats) matrix language. Research focus is on phonetic processes in relation to the stages of bilingualism. Phonetic production of code switching is paid less attention by the scholars, comparing with other domains of the language. Previous studies have generally examined segmental features of code switching, recent researches deal also with suprasegmental level, but phonetic processes have remained relatively unstud...

The article deals with the scholarly edition of 19th-20th cc. Georgian writersВ’ epistolary legacy (thirty-volume set), initiated by our scientific team from 2010, the modern research methods for textual and editorial studies, we guide with in preparing the volumes, our editorial strategy, based on which traditional attitudes and modern technologies have been combined with each other in research process, it became possible, by using computational technologies, to read several indecipherable texts of the writers, u...

The occupation of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire holds an important place in the 19th century world history. It great influenced on the arrangement of forces in those times in the world and gave rise to Russian EmpireВ’s advance in the south direction, negative results of which we're still suffering today. The Caucasus War appeared to be hard for the population of this region. Many ethnos faced the threat of physical destruction, and some of them, such as Ubbis, disappeared from history, and over half a millio...