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=== Letters added to other alphabets === Mkhedruli has been adapted to languages besides Georgian. Some of these alphabets retained letters obsolete in Georgian, while others acquired additional letters: {| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.2;width:20em;" |- align=center |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[ჶ]]</span><br/>''fi'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[ჷ]]</span><br/>''shva'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[ჸ]]</span><br/>''elifi'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[ჹ]]</span><br/>''turned gani'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[ჺ]]</span><br/>''aini'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[wikt:ჼ|ჼ]]</span><br/>''modifier letter nar'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[wikt:ჽ|ჽ]]</span><br/>''aen'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[wikt:ჾ|ჾ]]</span><br/>''hard sign'' |bgcolor="#ffffff"| <span style="font-size:240%;">[[wikt:ჿ|ჿ]]</span><br/>''labial sign'' |} *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჶ</span> (''fi'' "[[phi]]") is used in [[Laz alphabet|Laz]] and [[Svan alphabet|Svan]], and formerly in [[Ossetian alphabet|Ossetian]] and [[Abkhazian alphabet|Abkhazian]].<ref name="addit">Unicode Standard, V. 6.3. U10A0, p. 3</ref> It derives from the Greek letter Φ (''phi''). *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჷ</span> (''shva'' "[[schwa]]"), also called ''yn'', is used for the [[schwa]] sound in [[Svan alphabet|Svan]] and [[Mingrelian alphabet|Mingrelian]], and formerly in Ossetian and Abkhazian.<ref name="addit"/> *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჸ</span> (''elifi'' "[[aleph|alif]]") is used in for the [[glottal stop]] in Svan and Mingrelian.<ref name="addit"/> It is a reversed {{angbr|ყ}} (''q'ari''). *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჹ</span> (''turned gani'') was once used for {{IPAblink|ɢ}} in evangelical literature in [[Dagestanian languages]].<ref name="addit"/> *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჼ</span> (''modifier nar'') is used in [[Bats language|Bats]]. It [[nasalization|nasalizes]] the preceding vowel.<ref name="omni_Bats" /> *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჺ</span> (''aini'' "[[ain (letter)|ain]]") is occasionally used for {{IPAblink|ʕ}} in [[Bats language|Bats]].<ref name="addit"/> It derives from the Arabic letter {{angbr|{{lang|ar|ع}}}} (''ʿayn'') *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჽ</span> (''aen'') was used in the [[Ossetian language]] when it was written in the Georgian script. It was pronounced {{IPAblink|ə}}.<ref name="omni_Osse" /> *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჾ</span> (''hard sign'') was used in Abkhaz for [[velarization]] of the preceding consonant.<ref name="N3775" /> *<span style="font-size:170%;">ჿ</span> (''labial sign'') was used in Abkhaz for [[labialization]] of the preceding consonant.<ref name="N3775" />
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