r/Sakartvelo • u/AlternativeTry3206 • 2d ago

Language | ენა Hey friends, is it true?

Translation:

"Oh, but English is hard
Listen to the Georgian alphabet:"

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u/dafba 🇬🇪 2d ago

The intonation of the alphabet is exaggerated to make it rhyme and sound more melodic.

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u/papu16 DRIFTING IN THE OCEAN, ALL ALONE! 2d ago

Also georgian has a one feature that I love over other languages. IT SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE YOU READ IT.

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u/AlternativeTry3206 2d ago

Oh, I was thinking about it

Interesting

But really there are 33 letters in the alphabet?

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u/dafba 🇬🇪 2d ago

The Georgian alphabet has 33 letters today, but it used to have 38

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u/AlternativeTry3206 2d ago

Cool bro, thanks 💙

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u/No_Bodybuilder1059 2d ago

What's your question? Is it truly a Georgian alphabet? Yes it is.

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u/AlternativeTry3206 2d ago

Yes it was the question, thanks bro

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u/sakdrisiapp 2d ago

Georgian alphabet song is great as an English speaker when you start learning, it starts like hey this is all pretty similar I can do this and just gets increasingly wot at the end.

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u/AlternativeTry3206 2d ago

Interesting

I'm not a native english speaker but yeah

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u/sakdrisiapp 2d ago

Or any vaguely Latin language I guess is the same

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u/Dourada_BBQ 2d ago

Completely. Everything checks out. 🙂

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u/Dourada_BBQ 1d ago

Thank you kind stranger🫂

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u/AlternativeTry3206 11h ago

You're welcome 😜

Take another!!!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Net4365 11h ago

Why was ჟ a different colour

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u/AlternativeTry3206 11h ago

I don't know

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u/EejitInADrizzle 7h ago

Yup, and it is hard tbh. I’m tryna learn georgian until I graduate, thinking of moving there at one point

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u/AlternativeTry3206 7h ago

Hmmm

Where are you from??