Romanization of Georgian is the process of transliterating the

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from the

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into the

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Georgian national system of romanization

This system, adopted in February 2002 by the State Department of Geodesy and Cartography of Georgia and the Institute of Linguistics, Georgian National Academy of Sciences, establishes a

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system of the Georgian letters into Latin letters. The system was already in use, since 1998, on driving licenses. It is also used by BGN and PCGN since 2009, as well as in

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Unofficial system of romanization

Despite its popularity this system sometimes leads to ambiguity. The system is mostly used in

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, forums, chat rooms, etc. The system is greatly influenced by the common QWERTY-derived Georgian keyboard layout that ties each key to each letter in the alphabet (seven of them: T, W, R, S, J, Z, C with the help of the ''shift'' key to make another letter).

ISO standard

ISO 9984:1996, "Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters", was last reviewed and confirmed in 2010. The guiding principles in the standard are: * No digraphs, i.e. one Latin letter per Georgian letter (apart from the apostrophe-like "High comma off center" ( ISO 5426), which is mappedEvertype.com: ISO 5426 mapping to UnicodeJoan M. Aliprand: ''Finalized Mapping between Characters of ISO 5426 and ISO/IEC 10646-1''The Unicode Standard: Spacing Modifier Letters
to "Combining comma above right" (U+0315) in Unicode, for

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s, whereas ejectives are unmarked, e.g.: კ → k, ქ → k̕ * Extended characters are mostly Latin letters with

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(haček – ž, š, č̕, č, ǰ), with the exception of "g macron" ღ → ḡ. Archaic extended characters are ē, ō, and ẖ (h with line below). * No capitalization, both as it does not appear in the original script, and to avoid confusion with claimed popular ad hoc transliterations of caron characters as capitals instead. (e.g. შ as S for š)

Transliteration table

Archaic letters are shown on a red background.

Notes

References

External links

Georgian – ISO 9984 transliteration system
– Transliteration web utility for the National and ISO transliteration of Georgian {{ISO standards Georgian scripts Georgian Georgian language ISO standards