'''Мегре́ли''', наричани също '''мингрели''',<ref>{{cite book|title=Списание на БАН|year=1991|publisher=Издателство на БАН|book=37|page=48}}</ref> ({{lang-xmf| მარგალეფი}}, ''марга́лепи''; {{lang-|ka|მეგრელები}}, ''ме́греле́би'', {{lang-ab|а́гырқәа}}) са подгрупа [[грузинци]],<ref>Stuart J. Kaufman [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Plw98pTk5wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Modern+Hatreds:+The+Symbolic+Politics+of+Ethnic+War,+by+Stuart+J.+Kaufman&hl=ru&sa=X&ei=RAquT9fsD8WE-wau14TSCA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Modern%20Hatreds%3A%20The%20Symbolic%20Politics%20of%20Ethnic%20War%2C%20by%20Stuart%20J.%20Kaufman&f=false Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War], p 86: ''„Additionally, the Georgian category includes an array of politically important subgroups especially Mingrelians, Svans and Ajarians“''</ref><ref>[[Kevin Tuite]] [http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/tuitekj/caucasus/Dal.htm The Meaning of Dæl. Symbolic and Spatial Associations of the South Caucasian Goddess of Game Animals.] [[Université de Montréal]].</ref><ref>Tunç Aybak [https://books.google.com/books?hl=ru&id=8OYeAAAAMAAJ&q=Mingrelians Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict], p 185: ''«...Georgians (Megrels)...»''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=ru&id=8OYeAAAAMAAJ&q=Mingrelians Andropov, New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman, Mikhail S. Bernstam], p 116: ''„Georgia consists of three ethnics tribes: Imeretians, Kartvels, and Mingrelians.“''</ref><ref>Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, by Svante E. Cornell, p 142</ref><ref>Political Construction Sites: Nation-building in Russia and the Post-Soviet World, by Pål Kolstø, p 8</ref> основно населяващи областта [[Мегрелия]] в [[Грузия]]. Значителен брой има и в [[Абхазия]] и [[Тбилиси]]. До 1930-те години мегрелите са били отделяни в отделна етническа група.<ref>R. Wixman. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WKrN10g4whAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru#v=onepage&q&f=false The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook (s.134)]</ref><ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php?reg=5 National population census ZSFSR 1926]</ref>
Мегрелите говорят на [[Мегрелски език|мегрелски]], но масово говорят и [[Грузински език|грузински]]. И двата езика принадлежат на [[Картвелски езици|картвелското езиково семейство]]..<ref>[http://www.sorosoro.org/en/south-caucasian-language-family Sorosoro.org]</ref><ref>[http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-5/ccs.html]</ref><ref>[http://languageserver.uni-graz.at/ls/group?id=1059]</ref>
