Prepositions In Fereydan Georgian

Abstract

Fereydan (part of Isfahan region) is an Iranian province. Fereydan Georgians are ancestors of people who were exiled from Kakheti region by Iranian Shah in 17th century. Fereydan Georgians proudly refer their land as “Small Georgia”. Fereydan dialect preserves important information about the history of Georgian dialects and enables us to study the development of the language structure.

Fereydan dialect is interesting from different aspects. It preserves the peculiarities of 17th century Kakhetian-Ingilo local accent and with the process of evolution it acquired the new phenomena, which independently showed oneself in number of Georgian dialects. Also it inspires interest in terms of four century contact with Iranian languages, which suffered from certain influence.

Issues of prepositions in Fereydan dialect is very interesting, as some of them existing in contemporary Georgian doesn’t occur in Fereydan dialect, some them are changed, some has increased their functions and replace other prepositions. According to the text, recorded in Fereydan, mentioned below we’ll try to discuss about prepositions in Fereydan dialect with the help of samples.

According to text recorded in Fereydan we’ll try to discuss - khe preposition in Fereydan speech.