 At the same time, 934 Azeris indicated Georgian and 385 indicated Russian as their first language.Up until the early twentieth century, Azeri was the language of interethnic communication across most of the South Caucasus and the surrounding regions, including much of Georgia, with the exception of the Black Sea coastal regions.This mainly had to do with the economic practices of the neighbouring (mainly male) population, such as seasonal work, distant pastoralism and trade.