Request for Mingrelian Cyrillic keyboard

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This request would go along with 2 existing keyboards:

https://keyman.com/keyboards/colchis_latin
https://keyman.com/keyboards/colchis_phonetic

On 11/6/2024 10:53 AM, MARGALEF wrote:

Hello, my good friend.
Greetings from the Caucasus region, how are you doing?

May God bless you and make you happy.

I have one suggestion for you, of course, with your permission, if you have the time and funds, of course, if you would consider this idea, I would be very grateful

When the Principality of Mingrelia was abolished by the Russian Empire, both Mingrelia and the entire Caucasus became part of the Russian Empire, although Mingrelia lost its political statehood, it retained its cultural autonomy.

Despite cultural autonomy, Tsarist Russia still had the final say. Since the Mingrelians were an independent ethnic group in the Caucasus, Tsarist Russia allowed the Mingrelians to study in their native language in schools.

During this period new processes began, development of culture and art, teaching in schools started, Mingrelian Cyrillic alphabet was created in the city of Tbilisi, newspapers and books were published in Cyrillic, Mingrelian books for both primary and high schools.

This process continued until the Georgian communists came, it was the Georgian communists who banned the teaching of the Mingrelian language, shot and exiled to Siberia all cultural figures, it is now 2024 and they are still not allowed to teach in schools.

I want to say that the Cyrillic alphabet is also a part of our culture, our past history. Unfortunately, all books and magazines were destroyed by the communists, some facts are kept in the KGB archives, people have no opportunity to touch historical facts Ancient Caucasus.

But one very interesting book has been preserved. The book is called ,,The Mingrelian Alphabet,,,, the book can be downloaded on the internet, I will send you the pdf-version, you can download it yourself and see how interesting it is. The book contains a primary school programme for children to learn the Mingrelian language as well as a definition in Russian, unfortunately the rest of the book has been destroyed.

I will send you the book in PDF format as well as the corresponding Georgian-Mingrelian Cyrillic letters. I want this keyboard to exist because it was part of our history and culture.

Maybe you can revise it, maybe you can add it, it's part of our history.

ა а
ბ б
გ г
დ д
ე е
ვ в
ზ з
თ ꚋ
ი і
კ к
ლ л
მ м
ნ н
ჲ ј
ო о
პ п
ჟ ж
რ р
ს с
ტ т
უ у
ჷ ѵ
ფ ҧ
ქ ӄ
ღ ҕ
ყ ҡ
ჸ ɣ
შ ш
ჩ ч
ც ц
ძ ӡ
წ ҵ
ჭ ꚓ
ხ х
ჯ џ
ჰ һ
ჶ ф
ჳ ԝ

https://berikium33.fandom.com/wiki/Mingrelian_alphabet

http://openlibrary.ge/handle/123456789/6459

https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/222956/1/Mingrelckia_Azbuka.pdf

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C

https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5grel_alfabesi