Abstract:
Giorgi Akhvlediani (1887-1973) is known as the founder of the Georgian
language school. He put a great deal of effort into the research and study of
Georgian phonetics. At the same time, he examined the phonetics of other
languages. He studied and compiled a complete classification of sounds of the
Abkhaz language. In addition, he taught a course in the ancient Indian language,
Sanskrit, at the university. He also wrote a text-book.
Giorgi Akhvlediani's contribution to Iranistics is great. He devoted a lot of
time and energy to the problems of phonetics, dialectology and textual criticism
of the Ossetian language. At the same time, he was the first to design Ossetian
language curriculum and for many years taught the course in the Ossetian
language at the university. His research in phonetics (preruptives, three T in
Ossetian, etc.), morphology (“Predicate Dative in the Ossetian Language”),
dialectology is crucial - he considered the Dvalian dialect as a subdialect of the
Iron dialect, as one of the local dialects.
G. Akhvlediani presented Georgian-Ossetian language contacts in a new
manner and made a great contribution to solving this problem. His book
“Сборник избранных работ по осетинскому языку” (“Collection of Selected
Works on the Ossetian Language”) is still an essential work today.
Even today, a two-volume course on the grammar of the Ossetian language,
edited by Giorgi Akhvlediani, is an extremely important, invaluable work.
In the work, we will consider in detail Giorgi Akhvlediani’s great contribution
to the research of the Ossetian language. We will pay special attention to
the study of the Ossetian language and manuscripts.
