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Mingrelians
The Megrelians ( Megrelian: მარგალი, margali; : megrelebi) are a subgroup of GeorgiansStuart J. Kaufman Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, p 86: ''«Additionally, the Georgian category includes an array of politically important subgroups especially Mingrelians, Svans and Ajarians» that mostly live in Samegrelo region of Georgia. They also live in considerable numbers in Abkhazia and Tbilisi. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Megrelians were afforded their own ethnic group (natsional'nost'') category.
The Mingrelians speak the Mingrelian language, and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian language family.