Monday, September 8, 2008

A bit of linguistic investigation :)

Nothing to advertise here (on the photo). Me personally don`t visit it – have enough of junk food already, so that`s just samples of Georgian letters making the famous name.

And as you see there are eleven letters here, which is one more than ten needed to pronounce it in a typical version. As far as I know in Georgian you always add a vowel when the name ends with consonant. For example, no David but “Davidy”, no McDonald but “McDonaldy”. That definitely works for names, but perhaps not only. Anyway I was told that :)
And speaking about vowels: there are only five of them in Georgian alphabet (in Russain we have ten ), though the total number of letters is the same - 33 :)

Another fact: There are no capital letters in Georgian alphabet. There is a full stop, but all the writing is one size.

Interesting... And looks lovely :)


Tbilisi underground. "M" is for "Metro" (like in Moscow and perhaps everywhere :))

Ciao now.

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