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Kartvelian belongs to its own independent language family.
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Retrieved linguistic studies confirm that Kartvelian (South Caucasian) is recognized as an independent language family comprising Georgian, Megrelian, Laz, and Svan.

Evidence for · 2
The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics
2023 · cited by 6
The study applies Bayesian phylogenetics to the South Caucasian linguistic family (Kartvelian), confirming its status as an established linguistic family.
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Papers 8 and 11 explicitly discuss the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family, its internal phylogeny, and its independent status. No retrieved papers refute the proposition.

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Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Languages
2021 · cited by 4
The chapter describes Kartvelian as a distinct South Caucasian language family and examines its structure and genetic isolation.
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  1. The <i>bouba/kiki</i> effect is robust across cultures and writing systems.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. From Phonology to Syntax: Unsupervised Linguistic Typology at Different Levels with Language Embeddingspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. The origin and evolution of word order.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. NorthEuraLex: a wide-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Future Tense and Economic Decisions: Controlling for Cultural Evolution.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Transitivizing-detransitivizing typology and language family historypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. A Typology of Common Kartvelianpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Linguistic distances between native languages and Chinese influence acquisition of Chinese character, vocabulary, and grammar.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population geneticspeer-reviewedsupports
  10. Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus).peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)-A database for ancient language typology.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Languagespeer-reviewedsupports
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first checked06 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 6906 Aug 2026
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