Ani (letter)

Ani, or An (Asomtavruli: ; Nuskhuri: ; Mkhedruli: ა; Mtavruli: Ა; ) is the 1st letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 1. Ani represents an open central unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of in "father". It is typically romanized with the letter A.

An additional mkhedruli ani letters, ა̈ with an umlaut, ა̄ with a macron and ა̄̈ with both umlaut and macron are used in Svan language.

Letter

Three-dimensional

Stroke order

Evolution

Evolution in Asomtavruli

Evolution in all scripts

Computer encodings

With diacritic

Braille

Related letters and other similar characters

• Latin letter A
• Cyrillic letter A
• Alpha, Greek letter

References

Bibliography

• Mchedlidze, T. I, The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Mchedlidze, T. II, The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
• Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
• The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013