Georgian alphabet

Ancient Secret Symbols | Overview of the Georgian language and Alphabet

Before I went to Spain and roomied with a dude from Georgia, I had no idea about their script and how beautiful it is. A bunch of his friends came over for his birthday and wrote him well wishes on a...

The Georgian alphabet is an alphabet used in Georgia and (with minor exceptions) nowhere else. To most people, it looks like a fake alphabet, like something invented for a movie. Actually, most peo…

The history of Georgian can conventionally be divided into: Early Old Georgian: 5th–8th centuries Classical Old Georgian: 9th–11th centuries Middle Georgian: 11th/12th–17th/18th centuries Modern Georgian: 17th/18th century – present. Georgian is a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians. It is the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus. Georgian is written in its own unique writing system, the Georgian script.

Description The Georgian alphabet. (See German for full description)

Below are the transliterated names for Georgian numbers: 1 erti 2 ori 3 sami 4 otkhi 5 khuti 6 ekvsi 7 shvidi 8 rva 9 tskhra 10 ati 20 otsi 30 otsdaati 40 ormotsi 50 ormotsdaati 60 samotsi 70 samotsdaati 80 otkhmotsi 90 otkhmotsdaati The Georgian alphabet was once used as a numbering system as well (each letter has a corresponding number). The numbers associated with the letters are shown in the chart below: Can anyone find the discrepancy between the names of the numbers and the way they…

Georgian (ქართული ენა) is a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language spoken by about 4.1 million people mainly in Georgia, and also in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. (...) The Mkhedruli (მხედრული) alphabet developed from Nuskhuri between the 11th and 13th centuries. The name Mkhedruli comes from the word mkhedari which means 'of horseman'. (...)

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