The Mingrelians[a] (Mingrelian: მარგალეფი, romanized: margalepi; Georgian: მეგრელები, romanized:megrelebi) are an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking ethnic subgroup of Georgians[3][4][5][6][7][8] that mostly live in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti (Mingrelian: სამარგალო, romanized: samargalo; Georgian: სამეგრელო, romanized:samegrelo) region of Georgia. They also live in considerable numbers in Abkhazia and Tbilisi. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Mingrelians were afforded their own ethnic group category, alongside many other ethnic subgroups of Georgians.[9][10]
The Mingrelians speak the Mingrelian language, and are typically bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian language family.[11][12][13]
^Including Abkhazia, where 46,000 Mingrelians and Georgians live.
^Russian census 2010
^Stuart J. Kaufman Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War ::Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War], p 86: "Additionally, the Georgian category includes an array of politically important subgroups especially Mingrelians, Svans and Ajarians"
^Kevin Tuite "The Meaning of Dæl. Symbolic and Spatial Associations of the South Caucasian Goddess of Game Animals". Université de Montréal.
^Tunç Aybak Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict, p 185: "... Georgians (Megrels) ..."
^Andropov, New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman, Mikhail S. Bernstam, p 116: "Georgia consists of three ethnics tribes: Imeretians, Kartvels, and Mingrelians."
^Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, by Svante E. Cornell, p 142
^Political Construction Sites: Nation-building in Russia and the Post-Soviet World, by Pål Kolstø, p. 8
^R. Wixman. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (p.134)
^Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
^"SOUTH CAUCASIAN - LanguageServer - University of Graz". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
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