[2] Akhvlediani was born on 13 April 1887 in the village of Derchi of Tsqaltubo Municipality.

In 1910 he was enrolled at the historical-philological faculty of Kharkov University, where he received fundamental education in Indo-European linguistics and classical philology.

In 1915 Akhvlediani continued his studies at the chair of comparative Indo-European linguistics of Kharkov University, preparing for professorship.

Soon he was sent to Petrograd University where he attended the lectures of such prominent scholars as Nikolai Marr, Carl Salemann, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Lev Shcherba and others.

[3] At the newly founded Tbilisi University Akhvlediani pioneered the teaching of such disciplines as general linguistics and phonetics.