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What in the hell is up with the Georgian script? The "A" is about the only letter of theirs I can match with the sound it makes, and it sort of looks like an up
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
What in the hell is up with the Georgian script? The "A" is about the only letter of theirs I can match with the sound it makes, and it sort of looks like an upside down question mark without the dot. That's definitely not right.
- retrac 3y agoThe Georgian script is of uncertain origin. It's very old; at least 1600 years. It does seem to have influence from Greek. It was common for Christian missionaries to invent an alphabet for the language of the community they meant to convert. Usually based closely on the Greek, but sometimes only very loosely. Coptic (the descendant of spoken ancient Egyptian) got a modified Greek alphabet with some extra letters. Gothic (a Germanic language once spoken in southeast Europe) did as well. But the early Slavic languages got the [3] Glagolitic alphabet, which is much more divergent, though still Greek inspired. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_script https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_script [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script