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One language written three ways.
Also known as: Georgian script system
The Georgian tradition of three distinct alphabets used for different purposes across its history.
Write the Georgian language in three distinct alphabets used in different periods and registers.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History, Religion
All three remain in use rather than one having replaced the others: the modern hand for ordinary writing, and the two older scripts for liturgical text and for display, so the choice of script is itself a statement about the text.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History, Religion
Inscribed together on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list as a single living culture of writing rather than as three historical stages.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History, Religion
Three complete alphabets: rounded capitals of uniform height, an angular minuscule with ascenders and descenders, and the flowing modern hand in ordinary use.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.