Language
The Adjarians speak Adjarian, a local dialect of the Georgian language, related to that spoken in the neighboring northern province of Guria, but with a number of Turkish loanwords and with many common features with the Zan languages—Mingrelian and Laz—which are sisters to Georgian and are included in the Kartvelian or South Caucasian group.
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