A Hard Beauty

Georgia's Isolated Region of Svaneti

Written and photographed by Adam Sopko

Publidhed in www.worldandi.com

Thefirst Svanuri words I hear are among the last. With only a few thousand speakers left, the chances that Georgia's ethnic Svans would essay anything in the rolling language--a language without an alphabet--are somewhere between slim and none. Iona Gulidani is an exception.

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