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ysabetwordsmithDreamwidth is having an influx of new users, some from Russia and the Ukraine. I have studied Russian in school and visited the country, although I'm nowhere near fluent. I also have an affinity for Georgia after visiting Tblisi. So while my ability to read Russian posts is minor, my audience is global and folks from around the world are welcome here.
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Date: 2017-01-02 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-02 05:26 am (UTC)Wikipedia:
Georgian contains many "harmonic clusters" involving two consonants of a similar type (voiced, aspirated, or ejective) which are pronounced with only a single release; e.g. ბგერა bgera (sound), ცხოვრება tskhovreba (life), and წყალი ts'q'ali (water). There are also frequent consonant clusters, sometimes involving more than six consonants in a row, as may be seen in words like გვფრცქვნი gvprtskvni (You peel us) and მწვრთნელი mts'vrtneli (trainer).
Yes...
Date: 2017-01-02 05:40 am (UTC)And for all those consonant clusters, Georgian has a musical sound that Russian just doesn't.
Re: Yes...
Date: 2017-01-02 06:04 am (UTC)The Kartvelian languages (Georgian: ქართველური ენები) (also known as Iberian and formerly South Caucasian) are a language family indigenous to the Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia, with large groups of native speakers in Russia, Iran, the United States, the European Union, Israel, and northeastern parts of Turkey. There are approximately 5.2 million speakers of Kartvelian languages worldwide. It is not known to be related to any other language family, making it one of the world's primary language families.
(I would have used Ethnologue, but it's "temporarily unavailable due to technical difficulties".)