Editing Georgian scripts (section)

=== Letters removed from the Georgian alphabet ===
The [[Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians]], founded by Prince [[Ilia Chavchavadze]] in 1879, discarded five letters from the Georgian alphabet that had become redundant:{{sfn|Daniels|1996|p=367}}

{| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.2;width:25em;"
|- align=center 
|bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[He (Georgian letter)|ჱ]]</span><br/>''e-merve''
|bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[Ie (letter)|ჲ]]</span><br/>''iota''
|bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[Vie (letter)|ჳ]]</span><br/>''vie''
|bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[Khari (letter)|ჴ]]</span><br/>''khari''
|bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[Hoe (letter)|ჵ]]</span><br/>''hoe''
|}

*<span style="font-size:170%;">ჱ</span> ({{Lang-ka|ე-მერვე|tr}}''<ref name="obsol">Otar Jishkariani, Praise of the Alphabet, 1986, Tbilisi, p. 1</ref> "eighth e"'') /eɪ/ (like the ay in pay), Svan /eː/ (like the e in egg in some [[American English|American]] and [[Canadian English|Canadian]] accents), sometimes called "''ei''",{{sfn|Shanidze|1973|p=18}} was equivalent to ეჲ ''ey'', as in ქრისტჱ ~ ქრისტეჲ ''kristʼey'' 'Christ'.
*<span style="font-size:170%;">ჲ</span> ({{Lang-ka|იოტა|tr}}''<ref name="obsol" />'') /j/ (like the word "yeah"), appeared instead of ი (''ini'') after a vowel (დედაჲ ''deday'' "mother", რაჲ<ref>{{Cite web |last=Orbeliani |first=Sulkhan-Saba |date=1658–1725 |editor-last=Met'reveli |editor-first=Elene |editor2-last=Kurtsik'idze |editor2-first=Tsiala |others=Prepared based on autograph lists, researched and supplemented with a glossary of definitions by Ilia Abuladze; Illustrated by Giorgi Lomidze. |title=რაჲ - ლექსიკონი ქართული |url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=term&d=8&t=35456 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706232410/http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=term&d=8&t=35456 |archive-date=Jul 6, 2024 |website=National Parliamentary Library of Georgia |publisher=Merani}}</ref> ''ray'' "what"), but came to have the same pronunciation as ი (''ini'') and was replaced by it. Thus, ქრისტჱ ~ ქრისტეჲ ''kristʼey'' "Christ" is now written ქრისტე ''kristʼe''.
*<span style="font-size:170%;">ჳ</span> ({{Lang-ka|ვიე|tr}}) /wi~vi/ (like a cluster of the oo in too and the i in ill), Svan /w/ (like the w in water)<ref name="obsol"/> came to be pronounced the same as ვი ''vi'' and was replaced by that sequence, as in სხჳსი > სხვისი ''skhvisi'' "others'".
*<span style="font-size:170%;">ჴ</span> ({{Lang-ka|ხარი/ჴარი|tr}},<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mach'avariani |first=Elene |title=მწიგნობრობაჲ ქართული |publisher=[[Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia]] |others=Illustrated by R. Makharadze; corrected by D. T'abutsadze. |year=1989 |editor-last=Labadze |editor-first=O. |pages=41 |language=ka}}</ref> ''qari'', ''hari'') {{IPA|/q⁽ʰ⁾/}} (like the Arabic [[Qoph|Qof]])<ref name="obsol"/> came to be pronounced the same as ხ (''khani''), and was replaced by it. e.g. ჴელმწიფე ''qelmtsʼipe'' became ხელმწიფე ''khelmtsʼipe'' "sovereign".
*<span style="font-size:170%;">ჵ</span> ({{Lang-ka|ჰოე|tr}}) /oː/ (somewhat like the American o in go)<ref name="obsol"/> was used for the [[interjection]] ''hoi!'' and is now spelled ჰოი. Also used in [[Bats language|Bats]] for the {{IPAslink|ʕ}} or {{IPAslink|ɦ}} sound.

All but ჵ (''hoe'') continue to be used in the [[Svan alphabet]]; ჲ (''hie'') is used in the [[Mingrelian alphabet|Mingrelian]] and [[Laz alphabet|Laz]] alphabets as well, for the y-sound {{IPAslink|j}}. Several others were used for [[Abkhaz language|Abkhaz]] and [[Ossetian language|Ossetian]] in the short time they were written in Mkhedruli script.