Thursday, October 25, 2007

Books on the Bats

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Here are some books on the Tsova Tush/Bats, courtesy of Prof. George Hewitt, Professor of Caucasian Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he is also the Head of the Department of the Languages and Cultures of [the] Near and Middle East.
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The Cover

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Frontispiece

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and Chapters of A. Shavkhelishvili's History and Ethnography of the Tsova Tush/Bats. (Tbilisi 2001)
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Followed by a List of Songs and Poems to be found in a book by J. Longishvili
(he of "shatilis asulo" fame; Tbilisi 2001)
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And finally, a Batsbur-Georgian-Russian Dictionary, compiled by the Kadagidze Brothers. (Tbilisi 1984)
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