Contacts of dialects of the Georgian language with minority languages in Georgia
In multilingual Georgia, Georgian as the state language influences minority languages, but in those regions where dialects of Georgian and minority languages are in contact, we get interesting linguistic results on the dialect level.
The paper deals with the region of Kvemo Kartli. Part of population of this region speaks the Kartlian dialect of the Georgian language. Kvemo Kartli is also populated by the Armenian and Azeri minorities. Armenian and Azeri languages in Kvemo Kartli contain vocabulary characteristic of the Kartlian dialect of Georgian, and on the other hand, the Kartlian dialect includes Azeri and Armenian borrowed words.
The paper examines borrowings obtained through language contacts that are not reflected in literary languages but are important at the level of the Kartlian dialect and in the everyday life of the Armenian- and Azeri-speaking minorities of the Kvemo Kartli region. The article looks at these loan words, changing of their meanings or range of collocation in all three languages.