Secondly, Old Georgian uses more contractions (abbreviations by first and last letter, a Christian abbreviation tradition which entails the question of how to spiritually correctly contract affixed words inducing a dilemma once many affixes are present), Latin suspensions (abbreviation by the first n letters. Figure 1 shows the patterns of occurrence of positions, given a certain word length. The y-axis represents the percentage of abbreviations (regardless of their lengths) that contain the position specified on the x-axis. In a normalized plot, all wordlengths from 4 to 11 are plotted together. For Old Georgian there is a gap after some first letters. We conjecture that the end of the word stem is most unlikely to occur in abbreviations. While in Latin, suffixes are often left out, in Georgian, which has an agglutinative morphology, this would lead to considerable difficulties in relating the actual word to the context since some suffixes carry information which in Latin are expressed by independent pre- or postpositions.