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What’s with this “Wren” thing?
The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

ქართული ენა (Kartuli Ena)
Kartuli Ena

Georgian

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Listeng

Translation: Lasha Khat’iashvili

Location: Tbilisi (Georgia)

Facilitation: Mike Szelog, Manchester, New Hampshire (USA)

Transliteration: Reinhard F. Hahn, Seattle (USA)

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Beghura

Ert beghuras fardulis kutkheshi bude hqonda. Ertkhel, ufrosi chit’ebi sach’mlis mosat’and gafrindnen tavianti pat’arebistvis da mart’o dat’oves isini.

Tsot’a khnis shemdeg, mama beghura sakhlshi dabrubda da ikitkha:

“Ra mokhda aqg vin gach’qeninat bavshvebog zhalian sheshinebulebi khart!”

“O, mamiko,” — mat upasukhes — “vighats uzarmazari katsi iqo aq ramodenime ch’utis ch’in. Is martla sashineli iqo. Is miasht’erda chvens budes tavisi veebertela tvalebit da zhalian shegvashina.”

“Gasagebia” — tqva mama beghuram. “saitken ch’avida is katsig”

“Ai iqit” — upasukhes bavshvebma — “t’qisken ch’avida”.

“Kargit” — tqva mamam — “Tqven aq iqavit, da ar idardot. Me mas davech’evvi” — o.

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Другой язык Кавказа?

Am sit’qvebit igi gafrinda budidan.

Man ifrina t’qeshi, gadaufrina gzis mosakhvevs da tsot’a khnis shemdeg loms ch’amoech’ia.

Magram beghuras sulats ar sheshinebia. Is daeshva lomis zurgze da chkhubi dauch’qo: “Ra saqme gqonda chems sakhlshi rom mokhvedi da ase shemishine bavshvebig!” — o.

Lomma mas quradgheba ar miaqtsia da gza ganagrzho.

Aman beghura ufro gaabraza da uaresad dauch’qo loms chkhubi: “Shen araferi gesaqmeba chems sakhlshi, da tu ertkhel kidev mokhval me gichveneb seirs” — tqva man da tsali fekhi ach’ia — “me ar minda amis gaketeba, magram itsode erti fekhis dart’qmit zurgs chagit’ekhav” — o.

Am sit’qvebit beghura tavisi budisken gafrinda.

“Ai bavshvebo” — tqva man — “me sashinel loms ch’kua vasch’avle da is ukan dabrunebas vegharasodes gabedavs” — o.