11 Facts About Mkhedruli

Mkhedruli is bicameral, with capital letters that are called Mkhedruli Mtavruli or simply Mtavruli .

Nowadays, Mkhedruli Mtavruli is only 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 scripts, to capitalize proper nouns or the first word of a sentence.

The oldest Mkhedruli inscription is found in Ateni Sioni Church dating back to 982 AD.

The second oldest Mkhedruli-written text is found in the 11th-century royal charters of King Bagrat IV of Georgia.

Mkhedruli was mostly used then in the Kingdom of Georgia for the royal charters, historical documents, manuscripts and inscriptions.

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Mkhedruli became more and more dominant over the two other scripts, though Khutsuri was used until the 19th century.

Mkhedruli became the universal writing Georgian system outside of the Church in the 19th century with the establishment and development of printed Georgian fonts.

Mkhedruli letters are written in the four-linear system, similar to Nuskhuri.

Mkhedruli letters begin to get coupled and more free calligraphy develops.

Example of one of the oldest Mkhedruli-written texts found in the royal charter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, 11th century.

Mkhedruli occupies the U+10D0–U+10FF range and Asomtavruli occupies the U+10A0–U+10CF range .