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Svan people
Sign in to saveThe Svans (; ) are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians indigenous to Svaneti, a region in northwest Georgia. They speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Svans were categorized as a separate ethnic group (). The self-designation of the Svan is Mushüan, which is probably reflected in the ethnonym Misimian of the Classical authors.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Svans Svan: შუ̂ანა̈რ shwanær
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Kartvelian languages.svg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Distribution of the Svan language in relation to other Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages.
- Ethnic group.population
- –80,000
- Ethnic group.region1
- Georgia
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 14,000–30,000
- Ethnic group.languages
- Svan, Georgian
- Ethnic group.religions
- Predominantly † Eastern Orthodox Christianity(Georgian Orthodox Church)
- Ethnic group.related c
- Georgians, Laz and Mingrelians
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
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- History
- Language
- Genetics
- Famous Svans
- References
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The Svans (; ) are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians indigenous to Svaneti, a region in northwest Georgia. They speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Svans were categorized as a separate ethnic group (). The self-designation of the Svan is Mushüan, which is probably reflected in the ethnonym Misimian of the Classical authors.
==History== thumb|Svan with khanjali (dagger) and long smoking pipe. [[Mestia (~1888–1900)]]