ADDITION TO THE REGULATION OF THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA on the rules of language application

1. The members of the Parliament shall deliver the speech in Georgian language.

2. Representatives of the national minorities having no command in Georgian may deliver the speech, besides their own language, at any minority language that is known at least by one member of the Presidium.

3. The representatives of national minorities, upon the consent of the Presidium, shall select one conversational language accepted by the Parliament.

4. The major essence of the speeches delivered in minority languages shall be interpreted in Georgian if there is such request from not less than 15 deputies.  The speeches delivered in Georgian shall not be translated into the minority languages.

5. The written proposals on amendment or other issues shall be done in Georgian.  The Presidium is authorized to deliver the unexpected proposals in one of the minority languages.

15 October 1918

Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia N. Chkheidze

Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Georgia N. Zhordania

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1936, desc. 1, file 85, p. 135)