10 Facts About Georgian scripts

Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.

Georgian scripts are unique in their appearance and their exact origin has never been established; however, in strictly structural terms, their alphabetical order largely corresponds to the Greek alphabet, with the exception of letters denoting uniquely Georgian sounds, which are grouped at the end.

Originally consisting of 38 letters, Georgian scripts is presently written in a 33-letter alphabet, as five letters are obsolete.

Origin of the Georgian scripts script is poorly known, and no full agreement exists among Georgian scripts and foreign scholars as to its date of creation, who designed the script, and the main influences on that process.

Rapp considers the tradition to be an attempt by the Georgian scripts Church to rebut the earlier tradition that the alphabet was invented by the Armenian scholar Mesrop Mashtots, and is a Georgian scripts application of an Iranian model in which primordial kings are credited with the creation of basic social institutions.

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However, some manuGeorgian scripts written completely in Asomtavruli can be found until the 11th century.

In Nuskhuri manuGeorgian scripts, Asomtavruli are used for titles and illuminated capitals.

Nowadays, Mtavruli is typically used in all-caps text in titles or to emphasize a word, though in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was occasionally used, as in Latin and Cyrillic Georgian scripts, to capitalize proper nouns or the first word of a sentence.

Georgian scripts come in only a single typeface, though word processors can apply automatic oblique and bold formatting to Georgian text.

Mac OS Georgian scripts is an unofficial character encoding created by Michael Everson for Georgian scripts on classic Mac OS.