The Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the State Language Department and the Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics organized a student conference dedicated to the Georgian Language Day at TSU. The event was opened by Darejan Tvaltvadze, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at TSU.
The following reports were presented at the conference: May-June 1978 – Sukhumi developments; April 14, 1978 (Soviet language policy and public views); Peculiarities of monosyllabic verb conjugations in Zemo Imeruli language; The influence of foreign words on modern Georgian; Ilia Chavchavadze and theoretical and practical issues of the Georgian language; Origin and development of the Georgian literary language, etc.