 In addition, tinsmiths and, less often, shepherds from Daghestan who visited Georgia around the same time would also use Azeri to communicate with the local population.Later, due to changing linguistic policies, universal schooling and abandonment of older practices, Azeri significantly lost positions to Georgian and Russian.Volkova noted that as of 1976, Azeri was still used as the language of trade between representatives of different ethnic groups in Tetritsqaro, Dmanisi and Marneuli.