According to the Georgian scholars, Gagra is derived from Gakra meaning walnut in the Svan language.
It has agreement between subject and object, and a split-ergative morphosyntactic system.
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Svan is the most differentiated member of the four Kartvelian languages, and is not intelligible with the other three (Georgian, Mingrelian and Laz).
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Svan is the native language of fewer than 30,000 Svans (15,000 of whom are Upper Svan dialect speakers and 12,000 are Lower Svan), living in the mountains of Svaneti, i.e. in the districts of Mestia and Lentekhi of Georgia, along the Enguri, Tskhenistskali and Kodori rivers.
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