Georgia’s written language has evolved over time and produced three alphabets, Mrgvlovani, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli, all of which are still in use today. Mrgvlovani, also known as Asomtavruli, was the first alphabet from which Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli was derived.
The Georgian alphabets coexist today thanks to their various cultural and social functions that reflect an aspect of Georgia's diversity and identity, and their continued use in a cultural sense gives communities a sense of continuity. Mrgvlovani and Nuskhuri are practiced and taught informally by the Georgian Orthodox Church community as well as some theological schools, institutions of higher education, linguists, scholars, and historians, while the education system in Georgia is based on the Mkhedruli alphabet.

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Living Culture of Three Writing Systems of the Georgian Alphabet was inscribed in 2016 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Georgia.