development of Georgian

Tabidze A language cannot be considered apart from the extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors that influence it. The influence of these factors on the language is always conditioned by the contact with another language; and the question of its social status is always related to another language. When two languages exist in a state, one spoken by an autochthonic population and the other by a 'guest', priority is given to the language whose speakers have the most advantageous economic or political-economical position. In this case, bilingualism is a logical consequence. The humanistic essence of teaching the second language is quite obvious-guaranteeing competent and valuable participation in the political life of the country. There exists another, much more mercantile motive for a state to protect itself from the strange mentality of the linguistically isolated mass. Because of the language barrier, this may find itself in an oppressed condition, and the dissatisfaction may be the cause of an ethnic conflict i