Nairi Yeritsyan, the head of the city council in the southern Georgian city of Akhalkalaki, doesn’t speak Georgian. It is not unusual here: More than 90 percent of the population is ethnic Armenian, ...

In the mountains of Caucasus lies a wonderfully distinct language family called Kartvelian, or the South Caucasian language family. One particular language in this family, called Georgian, is ...

As you approach Georgia’s southern border, the Georgian language becomes of little use. Trying to direct a visitor to the village of Khuldara, locals employ a combination of Azerbaijani, Russian, and ...