Re: Georgian (the language)

From:    Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...>
> Does anyone have a romanized Georgian wordlist that they could
> send me, or could someone direct me to a site where I could find
> such a wordlist? I've searched successlessly.
I hate to disappoint you, but such a thing really does not
exist in any useful manner.  Hippocrene puts out a small,
inexpensive and almost entirely useless dictionary, and
I believe it includes both the Georgian script and the usual
romanization (though not standard:  no such thing exists for
that too).  The best dictionary is the glossary at the end of
the second year text book for _Georgian: A Reading Grammar_
(called _Georgian: A Continuing Course_ or some such
thing IIRC) by Howard Aronson.  It is not romanized (as would
be expected in a second year chrestomathy), but it is very
well organized, according to root and with many suppletive and
irregular forms listed.  I hear some guy in the UK is working
on a Georgian-English/English-Georgian dictionary which is
rumored to be the best Georgian dictionary in any language since
Tschenkeli's Georgian-German/German-Georgian edition. This,
however, won't be in print until at least a decade or so
have passed, if not much longer.

If you're really serious about doing a conlang based on Georgian
in some way, then I'd suggest just learning the alphabet.  It's
confusing for beginners but beautiful and highly phonemic.

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