The Georgian alphabet (Georgian: ქართული დამწერლობა, literally "Georgian script") is the writing system used to write the Georgian language and other Kartvelian languages (Mingrelian, Svan, sometimes Laz), and occasionally other languages of the Caucasus such as Ossetic and Abkhaz during the 1940s. The Georgian language has phonemic orthography and the modern alphabet has thirty-three letters.
The word meaning "alphabet", Georgian: ანბანი anbani, is derived from the names of the first two letters of each of the three Georgian alphabets. The three alphabets look very different from one another but share the same alphabetic order and letter names. The alphabets may be seen mixed to some extent, though Georgian is unicameral meaning there is normally no distinction between upper and lower case in any of the alphabets.
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