Georgian scripts
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The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same nam
Bir el Qutt inscriptions, c. 430 AD, Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem
Bolnisi inscriptions, c. 494 AD, Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
Anbandidi Gospel in Asomtavruli, 9th century.
Nuskhuri of John Tornike collection of the Monastery of Iviron, 10th century.
Kartvelian languages
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The Kartvelian languages, also known as South Caucasian or Kartvelic languages, are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia. There are approximately 5 millio
Georgian scripts
…the official script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for modern Georgian and its related Kartvelian languages, whereas Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are used only by the Georgian Orthodox Church, in ceremonial religious texts and iconography. Georgian scripts are…
Proposed Kartvelian evolution showing wildlife with reconstructed proto-Kartvelian names (black areas); past societies (HG: Hunter-gatherers, N: Neolithic, CA: Copper Age, BA: Bronze Age, IA: Iron Age); and major rivers in whose watersheds extant Kartvelian languages evolved (colored lines). KBP means millennia before 1950.
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