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In these sections, letters of the Georgian alphabet and their pronunciation is taught. The second part consists of "Texts" (საკითხავი). There are eight short reading passages here. At the end of the book, the numbers are given one by one from 1 to 10, by tens from 10 to 100, and by hundreds from 100 to 1000.
Old Georgian (ႤႬႠჂ ႵႠႰႧႭჃႪႨ, [1] enay kartuli) is a literary language of the Georgian monarchies attested from the 5th century. The language remains in use as the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church and for the most part is still intelligible .
The first Georgian script was included in Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.0. In creating the Georgian Unicode block, important roles were played by German Jost Gippert, a linguist of Kartvelian studies, and American-Irish linguist and script-encoder Michael Everson, who created the Georgian Unicode for the ...
The Georgian language has two k sounds: ქ /k⁽ʰ⁾/ (similar to English) and კ /kʼ/. The official transliteration systems would spell the word as Kvevri (National System) or K'vevri (ISO 9984). Qvevri is a product of an unofficial transliteration system mostly used online. QWERTY-derived Georgian keyboard maps letter ქ /k⁽ʰ⁾/ to Q ...
The oldest Georgian manuscripts date back to the ninth century, but scholars doubt that there may have been various Christian texts translated into Georgian centuries ago. Given these facts, the spread of Christian culture was important for Georgia.
Georgian is a Unicode block containing the Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli Georgian characters used to write Modern Georgian, Svan, and Mingrelian languages. Another lower case, Nuskhuri , is encoded in a separate Georgian Supplement block, which is used with the Asomtavruli to write the ecclesiastical Khutsuri Georgian script.
Georgian syntax and verb agreement are largely those of a nominative–accusative language.That is, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are treated alike when it comes to word order within the sentence, and agreement marks in the verb complex.
Out of these groups collection of the Georgian manuscripts is the biggest. It comprises thousands of manuscripts, dated from 5th to 19th centuries. Among them are also palimpsests. Collection of the Georgian manuscripts is divided into four sub-collections – A, [18] H, [19] Q [20] and S. [21] This collection contains both church and secular ...