The mkhedruli (Géorgien: მხედრული, literally “secular”) is the Alphabet used to transcribe the Géorgien.

History

The mkhedruli probably appeared about the 11th century starting from the Khutsuri, an older alphabet géorgien; it was used for the secular writings (from where its name), while a combination of the khutsuri and Asomtavruli were useful for the religious writings. These the last two alphabets fell little by little in disuse and the mkhedruli remained the only alphabet used to write the géorgien.

Five letters were abandoned during second half of the 19th century and are not used any more nowadays.

Alphabet

Modern alphabet

Antiquated letters

The alphabet comprised in the beginning five other letters, from now on obsolete:

Additional letters

The following letters are used to transcribe others Langues kartvéliennes:

Data-processing representation

The modern mkhedruli is represented by the characters Unicode U+10D0 with U+10F0 (on addresses identical to the old alphabet Nuskhuri), on a block also containing the characters of the Asomtavruli. Characters U+10F1 with U+10F6 represent six antiquated letters; U+10F7 and U+10F8 are used for two letters of the languages mingrélienne and svane; U+10F9 and U+10FA are two letters rare; U+10FB is a traditional punctuation; U+10FC is a sign of Nasalisation.

See too

Internal bonds

• Alphabets géorgiens

External bonds

• '' Georgian alphabet (Mkhedruli) '' ( Omniglot )

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