Your first consonants

Read from left to right

These lessons use Mkhedruli, the everyday Georgian script. Each letter keeps its identity wherever it appears in a word; there are no Arabic-style joining forms. Mtavruli capitals appear in headings and emphasis, but everyday Georgian does not capitalise the first letter of a sentence.

ban

Ban makes b. Compare its tall stem with the shorter vin: ბ ვ.

ბ

ban

gan

Gan makes a hard g, as in go; never the g in giant.

გ

gan

don

Don makes d. Compare the closed parts of დ with the open arches of ლ.

დ

don

vin

Vin makes v. Compare ვ კ პ: follow each curve all the way to its end.

ვ

vin