State Language Of Georgia And Society

(Materials From The Reality Of Kutaisi Of 1990s)

Abstract

The attitude of Kutaisi society toward the state language of Georgia was always special. The city played an important role in developing Georgian literary language not only when it was the capital of Georgia, but also in the following centuries.

In the 1980-90s, when there were great difficulties in saving the literal language in our country, there was a city commission of a language in Kutaisi, where the members of the scientific field and representatives of other fields of society were involved. In 1969 the commission of controlling the state language of Georgia and the language department was founded. In that commission, there were continuing commissions and sub-commissions, also, temporary groups of controlling and testing language specialists of different resources. It was their duty to test and study the conditions in court and legislation office, in the branch office of “Telecommunication of Georgia”, in Television station and Press, in hospitals, Police and commission’s office… The language of advertisements and posters were also considered.

The document (24.09.1996, 17:00) is given in the article, in which “The agenda of the second meeting of the commission of controlling the state language of Georgia” is discussed according to the instructions of continuing commissions, subcommissions and groups of specialists. There is also the document of a sub-commission, in which the terminology of different producing companies is discussed. In this document, the condition of Georgian language of 1990s is described. The material reveals that there is a real ruthlessness in producing companies and several institutions in terms of functioning the state language, there is no language standard, that is caused by the influence of Russian language, or the politics which is still remained in the language of institutions and several producing companies of Georgia of 90s of the 20 century.