How it works
This Georgian font generator swaps Latin letters for the letters of the Georgian alphabet, following Georgia's national romanization system backwards. It changes letters, not meaning: nothing is translated, and the result is real Georgian script, not a typeface.
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Spelling by the national system
Wikipedia records that Georgia adopted the system in February 2002. Most letters pair one to one. Some Georgian letters take two Latin ones: zh, gh, sh, ch, ts, dz and kh. An apostrophe makes another letter: k is ქ and k' is კ, and p, t, ch and ts go the same way. Tbilisi comes out as თბილისი, the way the city writes its name.
Four scripts, one alphabet
Mkhedruli is the everyday script. Mtavruli is its capitals, used for titles. Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are older scripts that the Georgian Orthodox Church still uses. All four share the same letters, names and order.
- F, w, x and y stay as typed, and so do a c outside ch and a q with no apostrophe.
- Swap reads Georgian letters back into Latin ones by the same table.
Questions and answers
Is this a Georgian translator?
No. It swaps letters and knows no words. Type hello and you get h, e, l, l and o in Georgian letters, which is not the Georgian word for hello. It suits the name of a place or a person.
Why do I get letters and not a typeface?
Georgian here means the script of the country of Georgia. The page gives you its real letters as text, and each app shows them in a typeface of its own. It does not change the look of Latin letters.
Why do some rows show empty boxes?
The characters arrived and the font did not. The Mtavruli capitals joined Unicode in version 11.0, in June 2018, so an older device may lack them. The everyday Mkhedruli letters have been there since version 1.1.
How many letters does the Georgian alphabet have?
Thirty-three today. Wikipedia records that it began with 38 and that five are now obsolete. Everyday writing has no capitals: Mtavruli is used only for titles or to make a word stand out.