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triscript

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Etymology

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tri- +‎ script

Adjective

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triscript (not comparable)

  1. Using three scripts (especially of monolingual text).
    Coordinate term: biscript
    • 2021 December 6, Edward O. D. Love, Script Switching in Roman Egypt: Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte)‎[1], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:
      A cognitive shift particular to the Late Period, changing the nature of the triscript system beyond recognition, was the fact that the palaeographies and orthographies of demotic became so distinct from their hieratic palaeographic predecessors that they were no longer mutually comprehensible.213