public_comment: "It is important to note that South Caucasian (Kartvelian) is not genetically related in any demonstrable way to other language families of the Caucasus.",
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public_comment: "Speaker number and ethnic population data (A. Kibrik 2000)",
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source_id:1511,
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public_comment: "The number of speakers is usually given as 40,000, but in reality it may be down to a few thousand, because many people who have shifted to the closely related Georgian still claim Svan ethnicity.",
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public_comment: "In most recent statistics (1997): Upper Svan dialects ~15,000, Lower Svan dialects <12,000, Kodori region speakers ~2,500",