Since explaining the basics of different versions of tea helped me a lot in understanding it, I hope that writing this article will help in the same way with the Georgian language. It's difficult to move to a completely new country- discovering the new culture, the people around you, the language… It’s even more interesting if you suddenly realize that you can not read anymore.

Georgian is amongst the 10 oldest languages in the world and apparently, Georgians decided somewhere in the very early stages of history that they want their very own everything. Therefore they came up with the Georgian language- Kartuli ena and alphabet- Georgian script. It had three different versions but the one that is used now mostly consists of letters that for me look like the Latin “M” (none of them is actually an “M”), number 6 or number 3.

M-like letters: დ (d), თ (th), ლ (l), ო (o), რ - (r, hence the Renegade logo), ფ (p), ღ (r)

6-like letters: ბ (b), გ (g), მ (m), ნ (n), ს (s), შ (sh), ძ (dz), წ (ts), ხ (kh)

3-like letters: ვ (v), კ (k), პ (p), ც (ts), ჰ (h)

The rest of them: ა (a), ე (e), ზ (z), ი (i), ჟ (zh), ტ (t), უ (u), ქ (k), ყ (k), ჩ (ch), ჭ (ch), ჯ - (j)

As you can see there are quite a lot of letters that in Latin description look the same, like the variety of letter "K" for example- unfortunately, I am not able to write down in Georgian what their differences are. You just have to come here and consult a Georgian I suppose! 😉

Letters like M, 6 or 3 cover 20 of the 33 letters in Georgian alphabet, so if you will master those, you are more or less covered- congratulations! 😊 The good news about the alphabet is that there are no small letters- all M’s, 3’s and 6’s are equally important, does not matter if they are in the end or in the middle of a word.