Abstract:
Ivane Javakhishvili was very concerned about the issues of
studying the languages of the mountain people, the great scientist
considered it his duty to raise the national consciousness of
his neighbors living in the north and take care of the development
of their writing. The development of national consciousness,
their national revival, was impossible without education.
That is why Ivane Javakhishvili focused on this matter immediately
after the establishment of the university. At the Georgian
University, in 1918, at the very first meeting of professors, he raised
the issue of studying the Ossetian language.
Of course, the issue was really acute. The Ossetian language,
a language of the Indo-European family, differs from the languages
of the Iranian group primarily in phonetic and in general
linguistic features. It contains sharp sounds known for both Iranian
and Caucasian languages at the same time. That is why it
was necessary to start his research at the scientific level at the
university. Many well-educated linguists were already invited
here. Giorgi Akhvlediani was one of them to be appointed as the
head of this case.
Ivane Javakhishvili believed that the study of the language
and orality of the mountain people was very useful for them and was necessary for the scientific study of our mother tongue.
According to the great scientist, the national revival of the northern
neighbors and the development of their writing signified
the future political well-being of the Caucasians as a whole.
Ivane Javakhishvili entrusted the study and teaching of the
Ossetian language to the great linguist Giorgi Akhvlediani. His
contribution to the study of the Ossetian language is extensively
reviewed in the work.
It can be said that along with great scientists Andreas Johan
Sjögren, Vsevolod Miller, Georges Dumézil, Vasil Abaev and others,
Giorgi Akhvlediani made a great contribution to the scientific
study and research of the Ossetian language. His works do
not lose their importance even today and are used as fundamental
textbooks for higher education.
