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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 .
A Georgian tradition first attested in the medieval chronicle Lives of the Kings of Kartli (c. 800), [3] assigns a much earlier, pre-Christian origin to the Georgian alphabet, and names King Pharnavaz I (3rd century BC) as its inventor. This account is now considered legendary, and is rejected by scholarly consensus, as no archaeological ...
Georgian is most closely related to the Zan languages (Megrelian and Laz) and more distantly to Svan. Georgian has various dialects, with standard Georgian based on the Kartlian dialect, and all dialects are mutually intelligible. The history of Georgian spans from Early Old Georgian in the 5th century, to Modern Georgian today.
This letter was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Ѥ ѥ: ѥ: je je i͡e [jɛ] І-Є ligature This letter was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Ю ю: ю: ju ju i͡u [ju] І-ОУ ligature, dropping У There was no [jo] sound in early Slavic, so І-ОУ did not need to be distinguished from І-О.
The Syriac alphabet used after the 3rd century AD evolved, through the Pahlavi scripts and Sogdian alphabet, into the alphabets of North Asia such as the Old Turkic alphabet, the Old Uyghur alphabet, the Mongolian writing systems, and the Manchu alphabet. The Georgian scripts are of uncertain provenance, but appear to be part of either the ...
Ts'ili (asomtavruli Ⴜ, nuskhuri ⴜ, mkhedruli წ, mtavruli Წ) is the 32nd letter of the three Georgian scripts. [1] In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 4000. [2] Ts'ili represents the Alveolar ejective affricate [tsʼ]. Pronounced as a hard tsani.
The culture of Georgia has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national identity and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet. This strong sense of national identity has helped to preserve Georgian distinctiveness despite repeated periods of foreign occupation.
Georgian c. 430; Glagolitic 862; ... The Glagolitic alphabet, ... The Old Church Slavonic names follow the scientific transliteration, while the mostly similar Church ...