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Georgia - People

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Nearly 100 different ethnic groups make up Georgia’s population. Georgians are the largest group, making up about 70 percent of the population, followed by Armenians (about 8 percent), Russians (about 6 percent), and Azerbaijanis (about 6 percent). Significant numbers of Ossetians, Greeks, and Abkhazians also reside in the republic. Georgian has been the country’s official language since 1918, when Georgia briefly gained its independence. The language belongs to the South Caucasian, or Kartvelian, language family and uses a distinct alphabet that was developed in the 5th century. Georgian is not spoken by many of the country’s ethnic minorities, such as the Ossetians and Abkhazians, who speak their own native languages. Russian is the first language of about 9 percent of the population.
Elderly woman in her Tblisi home	Men chatting in the streets of Tblisi	Elderly man in the streets of Tblisi
Georgian children playing	Thoughtful Georgian woman	Georgian woman
Georgian teenage girls	Woman cooking for a roadside eating stall	Georgian women sitting on a bench