Georgian slang

Georgian slang (Georgian: ქართული ჟარგონი, romanized: kartuli zhargoni) is the colloquial terminology of Georgian, a Kartvelian language that is an official language of Georgia. One of the first to document Georgian slang was a lexicographer and diplomat under King Vakhtang VI, Prince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

Georgian also has a variety of highly inflammatory and vulgar slurs, that develops into Georgian profanity. With the rapid development of technology, Georgian is also actively utilizing the terms from the internet slang, predominantly the Anglicisms, through Georgianizing them with its own complex rules of conjugation and suffixes. Some Georgian lexicographers and scholars highly criticize the increasing slang takeover, proposing to ban it, while others maintain it is a global phenomenon for any language and probably irreversible.


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