Are Georgians Mingrelians?
Currently, most Mingrelian identify themselves as a subgroup of the Georgian nation and have preserved many characteristic cultural features – including the Mingrelian language – that date back to the pre-Christian Colchian era. … (As is well-known, Stalin himself was a Georgian.) Is Megrelian a language? Mingrelian language, also called Megrelian, unwritten Kartvelian (South Caucasian)…