Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Svans (Georgian: სვანი Svani) are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians (Kartvelians) living mostly in Svaneti a region in northwest Georgia. They speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In the pre-1930 Soviet census the Svans were afforded their own ethnic group (natsional’nost) category.
