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Here I will post about the fourth of Kartvelian peoples that forms Kartvelian (Georgian) ethnos alongside with closed related Kart, Zan, Svan peoples.
Meskhians are one of the Kartvelian peoples. Historically they seem to speak Meskhian language the vocabulary of that is now fixed in modern Meskhian dialects of Kart language.
Meskhian language had to be uniting ring between Zan and Kart languages but much closer to Kart. In the first half of the middle ages Meskhians began to lose Meskhian language and using Kart language under increasing Kart tribes influence. Such situation was with Ubykh language when ethnic cleansed from Ubykhia Ubykh population under close relative Circassian influence lost its Ubykh language and adopted Circassian language.
Now Kart language divides into two group of dialects Eastern Georgian (or Iberian, Kartian itself) and Meskhian (Southern Kartian) with remain of the Meskhian language the vocabelary of that can be partly be restored with help of relative Kartvelian languages using linguistic phonetic sound compliances (dont know science term in English language only direct translation).
Meskhians lived historically in the Lesser Caucasus, South-West Georgia, among Karts and Zans. Their living territory was most dangerous as it was on the way of the great nomad masses and politically and economically important for neighbour empires and kingdoms. Other Kartvelians lived more Northern far away from this path saved by Meskhians and neighbour Caucasian Albanians. Thats way they survived more.
Albanians and Meskhians were to some extent smashed. There are some Albanian remains in modern Azerbaijan represented by Albano-Dagestanian little peoples like Udis, Tsakhurs, Budukhs etc and little remains of Meskhian ethnogroups that settle historically Meskheti divided between Turkey and Georgia.
Meskhia or Meskheti nowadays is settled mostly by Turkish or Turkified population from Oghuz group of Turkic language family and Armenians from Indo-European language family that migrated to the Anatolia and then to the Southern Caucasus in the 1 mil BC from the Balkan region.
Meskhians themselves migrated from the their mountains to the Black Sea, brought the Meskhian dialects of the Kart language and divided Zan tribes into modern Laz and Mingrelian Zan subgroups without common borders. They are divided from each other by Gurians - Georgian ethnogroup - of Meskhian ancestry but strong Zan substratum. Many of them recognized in themselves Zan ancestry.
More mountain pure Meskhian mass begins migrating from the mountains to the Black Sea coast towns and villages presently from mountainous Adjara as Black Sea Coast after Gurian Principality lost it to Osman empire became part of Adjara sandjak and still is part Adjara autonomous Republic.
There are such ethnogroups of Meskhians relevant to those mountain vallies and regions where they formed. Eastern Meskhians or Samtskhians - the main Meskhian themselves, Javakhians (Kartian neighbours and more closed to them). Central and Western Meskhians - Shavshians, Klarjians, Tao Meskhians (modern Turkey, a lot Turkified). Adjarians and Gurians (Zano-Meskhian mix) living in modern Georgia. After Osman occupation Adjarians were deTurkified culturally or Turkic elements in their folk dances and sons were cleansed by Kartvelist folklorists. Gurians, except of little part of them (Kobuleti region) was not conquered by Osman empire though it considered the whole Western Kartvelia its part.
The last are Laz neighbours are more close to them than to Karts though they both - Eastern/Central/Western have a lot of in common.
Are very hardworking silent and difference of their Kart relatives, a bit mountainously stupid but a bit artful, avaricious.
Like claiming that they are like Kart kind-natured liking drinking and funs and not such fucki.. Laz who are sly loving money.
Though there are not like Karts. But something between Zan and Karts.
Not such sly as Lazes but not such carefree as Karts
Short story about them...
Furthfor will post videos and pics about them
Am waiting for lil Bori with posts, Meskheti is an old Turkish land, you fuckin Kartvelian, you know nothing, we we we Turkomens are the real ones...
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