The Bats people or the Batsbi (ბაცბი) are a small
Nakh-speaking community in
Georgia who are also known as the Tsova-Tushs (წოვა-თუშები) after the Tsova Gorge in the historic Georgian province of
Tusheti, where they migrated from the
North Caucasus in the
16th century. Most of the Bats people currently live in the village of Zemo Alvani in the
Kakheti region, but their families are scattered elsewhere in Georgia. Part of the community still retain their own
Bats language, which has come under a heavy influence of Georgian and is mutually unintelligible with other Nakh languages such as
Chechen and
Ingush. This language is unwritten and the Bats community generally use Georgian as a language of literacy. Their customs and traditions resemble those of other
eastern Georgian mountaineers.
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