↑ 12Georgian(ингл.). Ethnologue, 18th ed. (2015). — «Population 3,900,000 in Georgia (1993 UBS). Population total all countries: 4,237,010. Ethnic population: 3,980,000 (1993 UBS).» Дата обращения: 2 июнь 2015.
↑ 12Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, ISBN 9781134532889, 2002, page 118 (инг.)"Georgian .. is spoken by about 4 million there"
↑Levan Chilashvili «The Pre-Christian Georgian inscription from Nekresi». — Centre for Kartvelian Studies, Tbilisi State University. The Kartvelologist (Journal of Georgian Studies), no. 7. — Tbilisi, 2000. — ISBN 99928-816-1-5
↑ზ. ჭუმბურიძე ჭუმბურიძე ზ. ნეკრესის წარწერების გამო. ალმანახი «მწიგნობარი 01», თბ., 2001 წ.(Чумбуридзе З. Вследствие некресских надписей. // Альманах «Мцигнобари 01». — Тб., 2001.)
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↑Stephen H. Rapp. Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: early texts and Eurasian contexts. Peeters Publishers, 2003. — ISBN 90-429-1318-5. — С. 19: «Moreover, all surviving MSS written in Georgian postdate K’art’li’s fourth-century conversion to Christianity. Not a shred of dated evidence has come to light confirming the invention of a Georgian alphabet by King P’arnavaz in the third century ВС as is fabulously attested in the first text of K’C'<…> Cf. Chilashvili’s „Nekresi“ for the claim that a Geo. asomt’avruli burial inscription from Nekresi commemorates a Zoroastrian who died in the first/second century AD. Archaeological evidence confirms that a Zoroastrian temple once stood at Nekresi, but the date of the supposed grave marker is hopelessly circumstantial. Chilashvili reasons, on the basis of the first-/second-century date, that P’amavaz likely created the script in order to translate the Avesta (i.e.. sacred Zoroastrian writings) into Geo., thus turning on its head the argument that the Georgian script was deliberately fashioned by Christians in order to disseminate the New Testament. Though I accept eastern Georgia’s intimate connection to Iran, I cannot support Chilashvili’s dubious hypothesis. I find more palatable the idea that K’C actually refers to the introduction of a local form of written Aramaic during the reign of P’amavaz: Ceret’eli». Aramaic, «p. 243.»