Norms of the Contemporary Georgian Literary Language (T'anadedro'vi k'art'uli salit'erat'uro enis normebi: pirv'eli k'rebuli). 1970. In Georgian.

თანამედროვე ქართული სალიტერატურო ენის ნორმები. პირველი კრებული / საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის ენათმეცნიერების ინსტიტუტი ; რედაქტორი ო. გიგინეიშვილი.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა „მეცნიერება", 1970. 301 გვერდი ; 25 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 6 000 ც.
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Norms of the Contemporary Georgian Literary Language. First Collection / K. Kekelidze Institute of Linguistics of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences ; editor O. Gigineishvili ; publisher's editor I. Komakhelishvili.
Tbilisi : Metsniereba Publishing House, 1970. 301 pp. ; 25 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 6,000 copies. Approved by the Scientific Advisory Commission for the Establishment of the Norms of the Contemporary Georgian Literary Language, attached to the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR.
Condition: good.

This is the first published volume of the official codification of the norms of the contemporary Georgian literary language, the foundational prescriptive reference work governing written Georgian produced by the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistics. The Commission for the Norms of the Georgian Literary Language had been operational since the early 1950s, when it was constituted under the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR and the Council of Ministers, with its scientific infrastructure lodged in the Speech Culture Section of the Institute of Linguistics (established 1953). Decades of normative work by Georgian linguists culminated in this first published collection, which set out the official standards for orthography, orthoepy, morphology, and stylistic usage of modern written Georgian. The volume carries the formal imprimatur of the Scientific Advisory Commission attached to the Georgian SSR Council of Ministers - the highest level of official normative sanction available within the Soviet Georgian institutional framework. The 1970 first volume was subsequently joined by additional specialized collections, and the normative standards it codified continue to serve as a foundational reference for Georgian language standardization, including the contemporary Georgian orthographic dictionary published at ena.ge. The volume was prepared for publication in October 1968 but did not appear until February 1970, reflecting the standard delays of Soviet academic publishing. Of interest to scholars and collectors of Georgian linguistics, language policy, and the history of Georgian language standardization in the Soviet period.