The Zan languages, or Zanuri (Georgian: ზანური ენები) or Colchidian, are a branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages...

The Karto-Zan languages, also known as Georgian–Zan, are a branch of the Kartvelian language family that contains the Georgian and Zan languages. The Svan...

Brosset, Franz Bopp and others during the 1840s. Zan is the branch that contains the Mingrelian and Laz languages. On the basis of glottochronological analysis...

lower-level proto-language called Proto-Karto-Zan or Proto-Georgian-Zan, which is the ancestor of Karto-Zan languages (includes Georgian and Zan). The ablaut...

Proto-Georgian–Zan (also referred to as Proto-Karto-Zan) is a reconstructed language which is the common ancestor of Karto-Zan languages. It is hypothesized...

people, speaking the Zan languages. Kartvelian peoples Georgians Zans (Mingrelians and Laz people) Svans Kartvelian languages Zan languages v t e v t e...

Kartvelian languages also known as South Caucasian languages. Along with Mingrelian, it forms the Zan branch of this Kartvelian language family. The...

language, an Adamawa language of Chad Zan languages, a proposed collective term for the Megrelian and Laz languages in the 7th century Caucasus Zan Abeyratne...

intelligible only with Laz. Some linguists refer to Mingrelian and Laz as Zan languages. Zan had already split into Mingrelian and Laz variants by early modern...

systems of unclear origin. Georgian is most closely related to the Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz) and more distantly to Svan. Georgian has various...