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Gruzim | colspan="2" bgcolor="chocolate" align="center"|Gruzim | | gcolor="orange"|Total population: | bgcolor="#ffde80"|100,000 (est.) | | gcolor="orange"|Significant populations in: | bgcolor="#ffde80"|Georgia: 10,000 (est.)
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| | gcolor="orange"|Language | bgcolor="#ffde80"| Georgian, Russian, local languages of the countries in which they live | | gcolor="orange"|Religion | bgcolor="#ffde80"| Judaism | | gcolor="orange"|Related ethnic groups | bgcolor="#ffde80"| Related by tradition and ancestry:
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Gruzim
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Georgians | The Gruzim are Jews from the Georgia in the Caucasus. The word Gruzim comes from the Russian term Gruzinskie Evrei ("Georgian Jews"). Like their neighbors, their mother tongue is Georgian; also, like their neighbors, in modern times they also speak Russian. (Most of the Gruzim in Israel also speak Georgian, as well as Hebrew). The community, which numbered about 100,000 as recently as the 1970s, has largely emigrated to Israel, Austria, the United States, Russia and Belgium. As of 2004, only about 10,000 Gruzim remain in Georgia. http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=1840 The Gruzim may be one of the most ancient communities of the Jewish diaspora, although the exact dates of their arrival are not certain. The various claims are that they arrived: Some other sources give other dates, but none later than the second century C.E.
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