Middle Georgian
| Middle Georgian | |
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| sashuali kartuli | |
| საშუალი ქართული | |
 The Knight in the Panther's Skin, Middle Georgian literature | |
| Native to | Kingdom of Georgia, Kingdom of Western Georgia, Kingdom of Eastern Georgia, Samtskhe-Saatabago, Kingdom of Kartli, Kingdom of Kakheti, Kingdom of Imereti |
| Region | Caucasus |
| Ethnicity | Georgians |
| Era | 12th to 18th centuries |
Kartvelian
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| Georgian scripts | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | MidGeo |
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Middle Georgian (საშუალი ქართული, sashuali kartuli) was a literary language of the Georgian monarchies from the 12th century till 18th century, succeeding Old Georgian and developing into Modern Georgian. It is described as a transitional stage with an intrinsic structure for the Modern Georgian, that on a syntactic-typological level uses mixed features derived from Old Georgian. Middle Georgian was marked by greater genre-specific differences between epic, poetic and hagiographic, documentary texts, with degree of grammatical conservativeness.