The number of people living in poverty in America rose by nearly 4 million to 43.6 million in 2009 âthe largest figure in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available â the Census Bureau said Thursday.
Georgian is part of the South Caucasian family of languages: Zan (Mengrelo-Chan), Svan, and Georgian proper (Kartuli). It does not belong to any of the world's major language categories, such as Indo-European or Semitic. Over 98 percent of Georgians consider Georgian their native tongue.
Modern Georgian is essentially the Mkhedruli script, as illustrated in the table below. Note that Georgian does not in reality have capital letters. Sometimes titles of texts and newspaper headlines are written with letters jammed into an uniform height for emphasis.