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Mtsqrveli Ema [mt͡sʰqʰrve̞li e̞ma]

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Language type Not specified

Species Human/humanoid

About Old Mtsqrveli

Sample of Old Mtsqrveli[view] K'vandz! ap umervia tşne / dona risgat sakvoghe! / Qmelts bzine ba mtsknet, / Mt'el qarolis şemgaget. / Şvarotni nitş rvi apodz / momi mtrvalanen skhodz! / Işk'vanvosạnon mojarts, / Khrista ris avt Betlehemts! / K'vandz! ap umervia tşne / dona risgat sakvoghe! / Arit giạrigavts gherian / Khrista s-kali Jvar ba Tsvan! / Azedz - skho Kart avtskhaets ...[view all texts]

Latest vocabulary

q'iq'ovavavoid

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Sound samples in Old Mtsqrveli

Some sound samples of Old Mtsqrveli. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.

Atsdvişis dạ t'er dghagas, eri ughasaniş ubiġevlişind, ard zurtoliş tghas k'vanat. Unsda t...
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in y...

mtsoljia tşde debi qmiri varkhed tghasi olmi utşnovit. Rsa anits'ạlira ziani dzverạde, ba tşde ...
living has always a large part of my life. I was born at an incredibly young age, and ever since the...

Tghas qdze, jvini sartola, ts't'keva megholi adznebulad brmaskhomi tvdạ tşdna, nevt motsal...
I think its a really smart idea to come up with fun activities that you can do together, so you can ...

Eredze tghasit kvemis.
Give me the butter.

Gni erdavs t'eromi ersid bdztots 'tş "La, ek'ştoşạ diiganiş kart surudgha avt gạ...
If someone says something like "wow, you don't believe they actually landed on the moon, do you?", y...

Meli haegznevits, Tşkhenuli Ghtiovia t'var k'o igt gạlats qạvsiş. Kart t'er 'tş ...
In the middle of all this excitement, the Rational Decision-Maker seemed to have something else on h...

Language family relationships

Language treeTskhri-Zani
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Proto-Tskhri-Zani
⤷ Proto-Tskhri
⤷ Proto-East-Tskhri
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Proto-Mtsqrveli
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Old Mtsqrveli

[view] About Tskhri-ZaniLanguage family in Western Celea, and particularly in the Dadogavs, characterized by many marked cases and consonant clusters. Mtsqrveli comprises some 90% of its speakers.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial

Labio-
dental

Alveolar

Alveolo-
palatal

Velar

Uvular

Glottal

Nasal

Plosive

[p]¹ pʼ pʰ

[t]² tʼ tʰ

[k]³ kʼ kʰ

[q]⁴ qʼ qʰ

Fricative

[ʁ]⁵

Affricate

[t͡s]⁶ t͡sʼ t͡sʰ

d͡z

[t͡ɕ]⁷ t͡ɕʼ t͡ɕʰ

d͡ʑ

Lateral approximant

Trill

allophone of /pʰ/
allophone of /tʰ/
allophone of /kʰ/
allophone of /kʰ/
When directly after a voiced plosive or affricative, allophone of /χ/
allophone of /t͡sʰ/
allophone of /t͡ɕʰ/

Vowels	Front	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e̞		o̞
Open	a		ɒ

Orthography

Below is the orthography for Old Mtsqrveli. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.

Old MtsqrveliOrthography [edit]
-//	Aa/a/	Ạạ/ɒ/	Bb/b/	Dd/d/	DZ dz/d͡z/	Ee/e̞/	Ġġ/ɢ/	Gg/g/
GH gh/ɣ/	Hh/h/	Ii/i/	Jj/d͡ʑ/	Kk/kʰ/	K' k'/kʼ/	KH kh/χ/, [ʁ]¹	Ll/l/	Mm/m/
Nn/n/	Oo/o̞/	Pp/pʰ/	P' p'/pʼ/	Qq/qʰ/	Q' q'/qʼ/	Rr/r/	Şş/ɕ/	Ss/s/
Tt/tʰ/	T' t'/tʼ/	TŞ tş/t͡ɕʰ/	TS ts/t͡sʰ/	TŞ' tş'/t͡ɕʼ/	TS' ts'/t͡sʼ/	Uu/u/	Vv/v/	Zz/z/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]

When directly after a voiced plosive or affricative

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