Old Georgian language
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Old Georgian is the earliest attested stage of the Georgian language, used in medieval religious, literary, and historical texts and written in distinctive early Georgian scripts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Georgian language canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language
ⓘ
language ⓘ stage of the Georgian language ⓘ |
| chronology | early medieval period ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Middle Georgian language
ⓘ
Modern Georgian language ⓘ |
| direction | left-to-right writing ⓘ |
| earliestAttestation | 5th century ⓘ |
| floruit | 5th to 11th centuries ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Georgian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Georgian
Middle Georgian language ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verb morphology
ⓘ
ergative alignment in some screeves ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ polypersonal verbal agreement ⓘ rich case system ⓘ screeve-based verbal system ⓘ |
| influenced |
Georgian Orthodox Church liturgical language
ⓘ
later Georgian literary tradition ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | oge ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Kartvelian languages ⓘ |
| notableCorpus |
Martyrdoms of the Saints (hagiographic texts)
ⓘ
Old Georgian Bible translations ⓘ |
| partOf | Georgian language ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pre-Old Georgian (unattested) ⓘ |
| primaryTerritory |
Eastern Georgia
ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Georgia
|
| region |
Caucasus
ⓘ
Kingdom of Iberia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli)
|
| religiousFunction | language of Christian scripture in Georgia ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Georgian scripts ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabetic script ⓘ |
| standardFormOf | literary Georgian of the early medieval period ⓘ |
| status |
liturgical and scholarly use only
ⓘ
no longer spoken natively ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Kartvelian language ⓘ |
| usageContext |
biblical translations
ⓘ
hagiographic literature ⓘ historical chronicles ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ legal documents ⓘ liturgical texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedBy | Georgian Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Georgian kingdoms
ⓘ
surface form:
medieval Georgia
|
| writingMaterial |
parchment manuscripts
ⓘ
stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Georgian script
ⓘ
surface form:
Asomtavruli script
Nuskhuri script ⓘ early Georgian scripts ⓘ |
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