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Of the three scripts, Mkhedruli, once 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. [1]
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Georgia has a centuries-old tradition of a calligraphic school. Hand-written books from the early centuries became a cultural and a national phenomenon in Georgia. Christianity had played an enormous role in Georgian literature life since the Georgian Orthodox Church and its monks contributed their life to the Georgian writing by creating manuscripts and all the historical records for the Georg
Jesus and the Four Evangelists from the Vani Gospels. The Vani Gospels (Vani Four Gospels; Georgian: ვანის ოთხთავი, Vanis otkhtavi) is an illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels in the Georgian nuskhuri script dating from the end of the 12th–early 13th centuries.
Georgian literature (Georgian: ქართული ლიტერატურა) refers to a long literary heritage, with some of the oldest surviving texts in Georgian language dating back to the 5th century. A golden age of Georgian literature flourished under the unified kingdom of David IV in the 11th century.
Ch'ari (asomtavruli Ⴝ, nuskhuri ⴝ, mkhedruli ჭ, mtavruli Ჭ) is the 33rd letter of the three Georgian scripts. [1] In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 5000. [2] Ch'ari is a palato-alveolar ejective affricate ejective consonant [tʃʼ] and is pronounced as hard Chini.
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.
Georgian scripts, three scripts used to write the language; Georgian (Unicode block), a Unicode block containing the Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli scripts; Georgian cuisine, cooking styles and dishes with origins in the nation of Georgia and prepared by Georgian people around the world; Someone from Georgia (U.S. state) Georgian era, a period of ...