A BRIEF HISTORY OF GEORGIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Some of the languages, which are the product of a very long history, have disappeared in time, and some have survived to the present day. Communities living far from each other discovered new languages, and language communities that were in contact with each other interacted by taking words and grammatical structures from each other. Writing, which is one of the common works of societies living together, has reached the present day through thousands of years of development. When we look at the history of writing in the Georgian language, we see that it has passed through certain stages, is in continuous development and finally took its present form. The first stage of the Georgian alphabet is Asomtavruli, then the Nushuri writing system. The last stage is the Mkhedruli writing system, which dates back to the 12th century and is still used today. The Georgian language is one of the rare languages among the world's languages that uses its unique alphabet. We know that the writing system goes back to ancient times, so we can say that Georgian has a deep-rooted literary background.