Proto-Georgian-Zan (also referred to as Proto-Karto-Zan) is a
reconstructed language
Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages. There are two kinds of reconstruction:
* Internal reconstruction uses irregularities in a single language to ...
which is the common ancestor of
Karto-Zan 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 language forms the other branch of the Kartvelian family, showing characteristic differenc ...
. It had diverged from
Proto-Kartvelian
The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian ( ka, წინარექართველური ენა, tr), is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Kartvelian languages, which was spoken by the ancestors of th ...
during the 19th century BC.
References
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Agglutinative languages
Kartvelian languages
Georgian-Zan
Georgian-Zan languages
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