Yesterday, the Georgian parliament’s standing committee on cultural and education affairs began debating a language bill that would have Georgian enshrined as the state language by law.

The Armenian Community of Georgia website adds that the bill would delineate Georgian as the only working language in all the country’s administrative units and individuals and legal entities violating the new law would be subject to a fine.

The website notes that this is the fourth attempt by the Georgian parliament to pass a state language bill.

It also notes that the Georgian parliament has yet to begin the ratification process of the European Charter regarding regional and minority languages as mandated by the Council of Europe.