Svans of north Georgia -- Svanetia -- Georgian folk music

Svans of north Georgia. Svans are ethnic subgroup of Georgians (Kartvelians) with peculiar distinct genetics & language of their own. Svanetia is historic region of mountaineous Georgia. Georgian (Svan) folk music. There are only to speakers of Svan language. Svan is the most differentiated member of the four Kartvelian languages, and is not intelligible with the other three (Georgian, Mingrelian and Laz). Svan is believed to have separated from them in the 2nd millennium BC or earlier, about