There is a long-standing interest in European linguistics in possible connections between the languages of the Caucasus and Basque, even though Basque is usually assumed to be a language isolate. Georgian linguists Nikolai Marr and Arnold Chikobava were among the first to point out structural similarities between Basque and Caucasian languages. These observations sparked great interest in the study of the Basque language and culture in Georgia in the 1970s and 1980s. This publication provides a contrastive study of the structure of the Basque language and the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages Georgian and Megrelian.

This study (in Georgian) is a description of central features of Basque grammar. Throughout the book comparisons are given of Basque and the Kartvelian languages Georgian and Megrelian. Tte study provides a rich material of parallel examples in the three languages.

The publication is an overview (in Swedish) of Georgian grammar with texts, reference tables and Georgian/Swedish wordlists. It also includes audio files and exercises. All Georgian texts and examples are given in Georgian script with parallel Latin transliteration.

The material was originally written in 1988 for the first Georgian course at Lund University and later became the basis for the online Georgian course “Georgian I” currently offered at Malmö University. The book is published in connection with the 20 years anniversary of the online course 2001-2021.

The present chapter is a study of the system of olfactory expressions in Georgian, Megrelian, and other Kartvelian languages, including questions of etymology and semantic extensions. Olfactory expressions in the Kartvelian languages are explored with Viberg (1984) as a point of departure, making a division into activity, experience and copulative (source-based) expressions. The study largely relies on data from text corpora of Standard Georgian as well as Georgian dialects. The Kartvelian languages are shown to exhibit specific olfactory terminology, but show numerous examples of expressions being used in several perception modalities. 

The study is a comparison of Basque and the Kartvelian languages with a focus on verbal morphology and transitive vs intransitive constructions. Basque and Kartvelian languages both attract attention as showing ergative clause structure.

The Basque-Georgian-Russian Dictionary is a trilingual lexicon of words and affixes. The book includes thematical lexical material, a grammar sketch of Basque as well as a Georgian-Basque index.

The chapter explores the political and juridical aspects of Abkhazia’s participation in the preparations of the Winter Games. How may state actors and international organisations (such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Civil Aviation Organisation) be engaged in the Games, which partly involves Abkhaz territory, without, at the same time, violating international laws and regulations? It discusses two central problems: (1) the exploitation of Abkhazia’s natural resources, and (2) the development of infrastructure in Abkhazia for use in the Olympic Games.

Our aim is to investigate which verbs show the highest textual frequencies in the Kartvelian language Megrelian. The general assumption is that unmarked verbs represent lexical core concepts and that they will emerge among the verbs with the highest text frequencies, showing crosslinguistic similarities.