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All ethnic Svans, with a language distinct from Georgian, they left their homes in the gorge in August just ahead of advancing forces controlled by Abkhazia's breakaway government.
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They speak a very old version of Georgian with some differences to the main Kartlian dialect, but like Svans, Imeretians, Gurians, Kakhulians etc, they are Georgian.
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The Karachais and Balkars, who have always been close to the Svans, an ethnic group from the Georgian highlands, deserve a separate mention because lately they have been searching for common roots with the Ossetians dating back to antiquity.
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