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Svan

Svan

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A person from northwest Georgia who belongs to a group with its own language, or the language that group speaks
  • proper noun
: Svan
  • Many children in Svaneti are learning to speak the Svan language at school.

Examples

  • What you have done to everyone here, including those I have mentioned already, such as Natalie Reed, Ashley Miller, Stephanie Svan, Zinnia Jones, and JT Eberhard, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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  • I am delighted to see more and more people standing up to the unreasonable demands of Stephanie Svan, Laden, Myers, Watson, and the rest of the crazies who are determined to find "sexism" and "misogyny" behind every tree and beneath every stone.

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  • The Svan community holds vibrant cultural traditions and celebrations every year.

  • During our visit to Georgia, we met several Svan people who shared their history with us.

Surface Forms

Svan main

Etymology

Svan is the name the people of northwest Georgia call themselves and the name of their language. It comes from the region Svaneti, so a Svan means a person from that group or the language they speak.