peterlin Tetraglot Groupie Poland peterlin.jzn.pl Joined 6415 days ago 54 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Polish*, Persian, English, Russian
| Message 17 of 22 13 August 2008 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
While we are at it here is the best (IMHO) Lak forum. Check "nittil maz" and then "literatura".
Re: Lezgi. Glad you agree :)
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Gardenia Newbie Georgia Joined 5333 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 18 of 22 19 April 2010 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
გამარჯობათ, ჩემთვის ძალიან სასიამოვნო იყო ამ თემის ნახვა და ყველას დიდი სიამოვნებით დაგეხმარებით, თუ გაქვთ ქართული ენის შესწავლის სურვილი :)
Hello there :)))
It was nice to discover this topic :) I am Georgian and if anybody needs my help whether in skype or at other sourse I will be happy to help you :)
We can practise some Georgian :) I will do my best :)
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chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French
| Message 19 of 22 19 April 2010 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
How difficult would it be compared to Basque, Korean (assuming I am not a speaker of it), and Turkish? Apparently Georgian is unusually ridden with exceptions for an agglutinative language.
Edited by chucknorrisman on 19 April 2010 at 8:14pm
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Gardenia Newbie Georgia Joined 5333 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 20 of 22 20 April 2010 at 10:50am | IP Logged |
chucknorrisman wrote:
How difficult would it be compared to Basque, Korean (assuming I am not a speaker of it), and Turkish? Apparently Georgian is unusually ridden with exceptions for an agglutinative language. |
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Both Georgian and Basque languages have polypersonal verb agreement system. This means that verbs have to agree with subject, direct object, indirect object, causative meanings etc
Sourse: Wikipedia
In Georgian, the verb consists of a root and several optional affixes. The subject and object markers might appear as suffixes or prefixes, according to the verb class, the person and number, the tense and aspect of the verb, etc.; they also interact with each other phonologically. The polypersonal verbal system of Georgian allows the verb compound to convey the meanings of subject, direct object, indirect object, genitive, locative and causative meanings. As examples of the extremely complicated Georgian verb morphology, these are some simple polypersonal verbs (hyphens indicate morpheme boundaries):
v-khed-av "I see him"
g-mal-av-en "they hide you (sing. or pl.)"
g-i-mal-av-en "they hide it from you (sing. or pl.)"
gv-i-ket-eb-s "he is doing it for us"
a-chuk-eb-s "he will give it to him (as a gift)"
mi-u-lots-av-s "he will congratulate him on it"
Edited by Gardenia on 20 April 2010 at 10:55am
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Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5365 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian
| Message 21 of 22 21 April 2010 at 10:39pm | IP Logged |
Yeah I agree, Georgian looks an intriging language and Georgia looks an interesting place to visit; I'm glad that the 2008 South Ossetia war didn't escalate into something terrible. As for the language, the script is beautiful and I admire the strange and heavy use of constanants.
Armenian too looks an immensly fascinating language - even more so that Georgian. This tiny country is one of the oldest in the world and its isolated landlocked position in the Caucasus has preserved it's unique culture.
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Gardenia Newbie Georgia Joined 5333 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 22 of 22 23 April 2010 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
Gergeti trinity church
http://i036.radikal.ru/0911/c0/121dfd14636d.jpg
Edited by Gardenia on 23 April 2010 at 1:08pm
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