Editing Svan language (section)

===Alphabet===
[[File:Road sign in Svan language, Tvebishi village, late October 2020.jpg|thumb|Road sign in Svan language, that contains only Svan-specific letters, and romanized variant]]
The alphabet, illustrated above, is similar to the [[Mingrelian alphabet]], with a few additional letters otherwise obsolete in the [[Georgian script]]:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Svan alphabet, language and prounciation |url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/svan.htm |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=www.omniglot.com}}</ref>
* [[Fi (letter)|ჶ]] {{IPA|[f]}}
* [[Khari (letter)|ჴ]] {{IPA|/q⁽ʰ⁾/}}
* [[ჸ]] {{IPA|/ʔ/}}
* [[Ie (letter)|ჲ]] {{IPA|/j/}}
* უ̂ {{IPA|/w/}}
* [[ჷ]] {{IPA|/ə/}}
* [[He (Georgian letter)|ჱ]] {{IPA|/eː/}}

These are supplemented by diacritics on the vowels (the [[umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]] for front vowels and [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]] for length), though those are not normally written.  The digraphs 
* ჳი ("wi") {{IPA|/y/}}
* ჳე ("we") {{IPA|/œ/}}
are used in the Lower Bal and Lentekh dialects, and occasionally in Upper Bal; these sounds do not occur in Lashkh dialect.