The number of people living in poverty in America rose by nearly 4 million to 43.6 million in 2009 âthe largest figure in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available â the Census Bureau said Thursday.
Georgian is part of the South Caucasian family of languages: Zan (Mengrelo-Chan), Svan, and Georgian proper (Kartuli). It does not belong to any of the world's major language categories, such as Indo-European or Semitic. Over 98 percent of Georgians consider Georgian their native tongue.
In the 19th century âAryanâ was used as a synonym for âIndo-Europeanâ and also, more restrictively, to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. It is now used in linguistics only in the sense of the term Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.