Bani (letter)

Bani, or Ban (Asomtavruli: Ⴁ; Nuskhuri: ⴁ; Mkhedruli: ბ; Mtavruli Ბ; Georgian: ბანი, ბან) is the 2nd letter of the three Georgian scripts.^[1]

In the system of Georgian numerals, it has a value of 2.^[2] Bani commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive /b/,^[3] like the pronunciation of ⟨b⟩ in "boy". It is typically romanized with the letter B.^[4]

Letter

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli	mtavruli

asomtavruli	nuskhuri	mkhedruli

asomtavruli^[5]	nuskhuri^[6]	mkhedruli^[7]

Character information
Preview	Ⴁ		ⴁ		ბ		Ბ
Unicode name	GEORGIAN CAPITAL LETTER BAN ^[8]		GEORGIAN SMALL LETTER BAN^[9]		GEORGIAN LETTER BAN^[8]		GEORGIAN MTAVRULI CAPITAL LETTER BAN
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	4257	U+10A1	11521	U+2D01	4305	U+10D1	7313	U+1C91
UTF-8	225 130 161	E1 82 A1	226 180 129	E2 B4 81	225 131 145	E1 83 91	225 178 145	E1 B2 91
Numeric character reference	Ⴁ	Ⴁ	ⴁ	ⴁ	ბ	ბ	Ბ	Ბ

mkhedruli^[10]

Machavariani, p. 136
Mchedlidze, (2) p. 19
Aronson, Howard Isaac. Georgian: A Reading Grammar. — Columbus, OH : Slavica Publishers, 1990. — p. 18. — ISBN 978-0-89357-207-5
"Transliteration of Georgian" (PDF).
Mchedlidze, I, p. 105
Mchedlidze, I, p. 107
Mchedlidze, I, p. 110
Unicode (1)
Unicode (2)
UNESCO, World Braille Usage, Third Edition, Washington, D.C. p. 45

Mchedlidze, T. (1) The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Mchedlidze, T. (2) The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (2) Georgian Supplement, 1991-2013