The Georgian alphabet

33 letters, each with its name and roughly the sound it makes. The sounds are English approximations — enough to sound a word out, not enough to pass for a local.

🇬🇪 Georgian · An alphabet: vowels and consonants are letters of equal standing.

Thirty-three letters and no capitals at all — Georgian simply has no upper case, so a name and a noun look alike. The shapes are rounded and unrelated to any other script in use.

• ა an a in father
• ბ ban b
• გ gan g
• დ don d
• ე en e in bet
• ვ vin v
• ზ zen z
• თ tan t with a puff of air
• ი in ee in see
• კ kan sharp k
• ლ las l
• მ man m
• ნ nar n
• ო on o in more
• პ par sharp p
• ჟ zhan s in measure
• რ rae rolled r
• ს san s
• ტ tar sharp t
• უ un oo in boot
• ფ par p with a puff of air
• ქ kan k with a puff of air
• ღ ghan French r
• ყ qar k from the throat
• შ shin sh
• ჩ chin ch with a puff of air
• ც can ts with a puff of air
• ძ jil dz
• წ cil sharp ts
• ჭ char sharp ch
• ხ xan ch in loch
• ჯ jhan j in jam
• ჰ hae h

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The letters are the smaller half. The 1,550 commonest Georgian words are where they start meaning something.

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