Asomtavruli

The asomtavruli (Géorgien: ასომთავრული,), also named mrgvlovani (მრგლოვანი, literally “round”) is the Alphabet used to transcribe the Géorgien.

History

The origin of the writing géorgienne is not known; the historical tradition géorgienne allots the invention of the alphabet to the king Pharnabaze I {{er}} with, while other interpretations name priests of Mithra in 412 av. J. - the C. At all events, oldest undoubtedly written in géorgien date of approximately 430 a. J. - C. and was discovered in a church of Palestine; it used the asomtavruli.

The asomtavruli was gradually replaced by the Nuskhuri as from the 9th century; it was used thereafter to write the capital letters of the religious texts. The two writings became obsolete by the generalization of the Mkhedruli as from the 11th century. Certain contemporary writers however tried out the use of letters asomtavruli for the capitals.

Alphabet

Data-processing representation

The asomtavruli is represented by the characters Unicode U+10A0 with U+10C5, on a block also containing the characters of the Mkhedruli.

See too

Internal bonds

Alphabets géorgiens

External bonds

'' Georgian alphabet (Asomtavruli and Nuskha-khucuri) '' ( Omniglot )

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