Georgian

Modern Georgian is written with the Mkhedruli alphabet. There is no uppercase/lowercase distinction. In titles and headlines the characters are usually shown thicker and stretched so that they are uniform in height. Emphasis is shown by increasing the spacing between characters in a word. Mkhedruli occupies U+10D0 - U+10FF of the Georgian range.

Mkhedruli developed in the tenth century from an earlier manuscript alphabet called Nuskhuri. Today Nuskhuri is used only for liturgical purposes. Prior to Unicode version 4.1, Nuskhuri occupied the same codepoints as Mkhedruli (U+10D0 - U+10FF). With version 4.1, Nuskhuri has its own range (Georgian Supplement: U+2D00 - U+2D2F).

Nuskhuri developed from yet an older, inscriptional alphabet called Asomtavruli that was in use from the 5th to the 9th century. Religious texts used Asomtavruli characters for titles and the first letter of sentences. (Nuskhuri and Asomtavruli together are sometimes categorized as Khutsuri / ecclesiastical.) Asomtavruli occupies U+10A0 - U+10CF of the Georgian range.

• Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.
• The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
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