Descendants of the Georgian Muhajirs Living in Sinop İli (Turkey) and Some Peculiarities of Their Georgian Speech

In our article we review a Georgian dialectal speech of the Georgian Muhajirs’ descendants in Sinop, Turkey. All the research materials are obtained by us during the expedition July 8-19, 2019 in Turkey, Karadeniz (Black Sea Coast) region. In the article, all the Illustrative phrases in Georgian are transcribed with specific Latin based transcription for Ibero-Caucasian Languages. The most part of Muhajir Georgians’ Sinop descendants have preserved the Georgian ethnical self-concept. Due to the code-switching process going on for 140 years the historical mother tongue is only spoken by the older generation; their knowledge of the Turkish language is mostly poor. The people of middle generation are usually bilingual speaking both Georgian and Turkish. The younger generation speaks only Turkish, which they consider more prestigious than the mother tongue of their ancestors.