Based on Bell’s criteria of vitality, the Georgian language is alive and being taught and passed down to future generations. However, because it is a bilingual household, Georgian was not passed down. The two languages that were passed down were Russian and American English. Russian was the language passed down to the children. Nellie’s mother learned Georgian at home, where the family was speaking it. She also grew up in Georgia, where she attended school there as well. She did not pass down the language to her children because the father spoke Russian, and growing up in another country, having already been taught American  English and Russian, they decided not to add another language. The kids were born in the United  States, so American English and Russian were already being spoken at home, so then Georgian was not being passed down in this case. When it comes to different dialects of this language, this speaker only knows the main language because she lived in the capital. Dialects were mostly spoken in the countryside. Another criterion would be historicity because the Georgian language is not mutually intangible to any other language. Having that gives them a sense of identity. This language is only related to different dialects to but not to other languages. 

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