Old Georgian language

Old Georgian language
Old Georgian
ენაჲ ქართული
Spoken in Ancient Georgia
Era 5th–17th c.
Language family
South Caucasian
  • Old Georgian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 oge

Old Georgian (ენაჲ ქართული, enay kartuli, meaning the language of the Karts) was the language of the ancient kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus.

Old Georgian was the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people beginning in the 5th Century BC, until the modern Georgian language arose in the 17th Century.



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