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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Which ling. group are Georgian and Armenian\
In-Reply-To: snggab01@uctvax.uct.ac.za's message of 6 Oct 94 22:29:37 +0200
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In article <1994Oct6.222937.207675@uctvax.uct.ac.za> snggab01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
(Napoleon) writes:

>Can anyone out there tell me to which group of languages the Georgian (as in
>the Caucasus Grozny) and Armenian tongues belong?  I'm curious.  Also, I
>believe that Ossetian is related to Persian.  True?  Can anyone out there tell
>me.

Georgian (kartuli ena, gruzhinskiy jazyk) is the largest member of the
Kartvelian family (along with Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan).

Armenian is a member of the Indo-European family; Persian and Ossetic are
members of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of Indo-European.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
