«The Georgian Language»(en inglés). Consultado el 28 de agosto de 2008. «however, the efforts of the leadership of the Georgian Republic and the nation-wide movement resulted in the restoration of the official status of the Georgian language in the Constitution of Georgia».
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«Georgia Language»(en inglés). marzo de 1994. Consultado el 28 de agosto de 2008. «Even the republic's Soviet-era constitutions specified Georgian as the state language. In 1978 Moscow failed to impose a constitutional change giving Russian equal status with Georgian as an official language when Shevardnadze yielded to mass demonstrations against the amendment.»
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Stephen Jones. «Georgia. Nationalism from under the Rubble»(en inglés). University of Michigan. Consultado el 28 de agosto de 2008. «The second occasion was in 1978 when Georgians, primarily students from Tbilisi, demonstrated against the Soviet government’s decision to remove Georgian as the oficial language of the republic.»
