List of languages by writing system

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This article is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).

Contents 1 Arabic alphabet 2 Armenian alphabet 3 Brahmic family and derivatives 3.1 Devanagari 3.2 Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese) 3.3 Balinese script 3.4 Baybayin script (Tagalog) 3.5 Buhid script 3.6 Burmese script (Myanmar) 3.7 Gujarati script 3.8 Gurmukhi script 3.9 Hanunó'o script 3.10 Javanese script (Hanacaraka) 3.11 Kannada script 3.12 Khmer script 3.13 Lao script 3.14 Lepcha script 3.15 Limbu script 3.16 Lontara script (Buginese) 3.17 Malayalam script 3.18 Oriya script 3.19 'Phags-pa script 3.20 Sinhala script 3.21 Tagbanwa script 3.22 Tamil script 3.23 Telugu script 3.24 Thaana script 3.25 Thai script 3.26 Tibetan script 4 Canadian syllabics 5 Cherokee Script 6 Coptic alphabet 7 Cyrillic alphabet 8 Croatian or Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) 9 Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic) 10 Georgian alphabet 11 Glagolitic alphabet 12 Gothic alphabet 13 Greek alphabet 14 Han characters and derivatives 15 Hangul 16 Hebrew alphabet 17 Kana 18 Khitan scripts 19 Latin alphabet 20 N'ko 21 Nsibidi 22 Ogham 23 Mongolian and related scripts 23.1 Old Uyghur alphabet 23.2 Mongolian script 23.3 Manchu script 24 Munda scripts 24.1 Sorang Sompeng 24.2 Ol Cemet' 24.3 Varang Kshiti 25 Naxi script 26 Pahawh Hmong 27 Runic Alphabet 28 Old Hungarian script 29 Syriac alphabet 30 Thaana 31 Tifinagh 32 Yi script

[edit] Arabic alphabet

• Arabic
• Azeri (Iran)
• Balochi
• Berber
• Fulani (on occasion)
• Hausa (on occasion)
• Kanuri (on occasion)
• Kashmiri
• Kazakh in China
• Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
• Malagasy (until the 19th c.)
• Malay (14th - 17th c.)
• Mazanderani
• Ottoman Turkish
• Punjabi (Pakistan)
• Persian
• Pashtu
• Sindhi
• Tausug
• Swahili (on occasion)
• Tajik (on occasion)
• Urdu
• Uyghur

Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic

• Bashkir
• Kazakh
• Kyrgyz
• Tatar
• Uzbek

• in occasion Belarusian language

[edit] Armenian alphabet

• Armenian

[edit] Brahmic family and derivatives

[edit] Devanagari

• Sanskrit
• Hindi
• Marathi
• Maithili
• Bhojpuri
• Nepali
• Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
• Konkani
• Kashmiri
• Bodo
• Dogri

[edit] Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese)

• Bengali
• Assamese
• Meitei

[edit] Balinese script

• Balinese language (formerly)

[edit] Baybayin script (Tagalog)

• Ilokano (formerly)
• Kapampangan (formerly)
• Pangasinan (formerly)
• Tagalog (formerly)
• Bikol language (formerly)
• Visayan languages (formerly)

[edit] Buhid script

• Buhid

[edit] Burmese script (Myanmar)

• Burmese

[edit] Gujarati script

• Gujarati

[edit] Gurmukhi script

• Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)

[edit] Hanunó'o script

• Hanunó'o

[edit] Javanese script (Hanacaraka)

• Javanese (in old literatures, and a part of cultural heritage)
• Sundanese

[edit] Kannada script

• Kannada
• Konkani
• Tulu

[edit] Khmer script

• Khmer

[edit] Lao script

• Lao

[edit] Lepcha script

• Lepcha

[edit] Limbu script

• Limbu

[edit] Lontara script (Buginese)

• Buginese (formerly)

[edit] Malayalam script

• Malayalam
• Konkani

[edit] Oriya script

• Oriya

[edit] 'Phags-pa script

• Chinese (formerly)
• Mongolian (formerly)
• Sanskrit (formerly)
• Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
• Uyghur (formerly)

[edit] Sinhala script

• Sinhala

[edit] Tagbanwa script

• Languages of Palawan

[edit] Tamil script

• Tamil

[edit] Telugu script

• Telugu

[edit] Thaana script

• Dhivehi

[edit] Thai script

• Thai

[edit] Tibetan script

• Tibetan
• Dzongkha
• Ladakhi
• Zhang-Zhung (extinct)

[edit] Canadian syllabics

• Blackfoot
• Chipewyan
• Cree
• Dakelh
• Inuktitut
• Ojibwe
• Sekani
• Slavey
• Tasttine
• Tłįchǫ

[edit] Cherokee Script

• Cherokee

[edit] Coptic alphabet

• Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)

[edit] Cyrillic alphabet

[edit] Croatian or Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)

• Croatian (doesen't use it anymore)
• Bosnian (doesen't use it anymore)

[edit] Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)

• Amharic
• Ge'ez
• Tigrigna

[edit] Georgian alphabet

• Georgian
• Laz (sometimes Latin)
• Mingrelian
• Svan

[edit] Glagolitic alphabet

• Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
• Croatian (doesen't use glagolitic anymore)

[edit] Gothic alphabet

• Gothic (extinct)

[edit] Greek alphabet

• Bactrian (extinct)
• Greek
• Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin alphabet

[edit] Han characters and derivatives

• Chinese
  • Guan (Mandarin)
  • Wu which includes Shanghainese
  • Yue (Cantonese)
  • Min which includes Taiwanese
  • Xiang
  • Hakka
  • Gan
  • Jin from Mandarin
  • Huizhou from Wu
  • Ping partly from Cantonese
• Minority languages in China
  • Dong
  • Bai (obsolete)
  • Miao (obsolete)
  • Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete)
• Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
• Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts, and newspapers.)
• Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (almost extinct)
• Extinct languages
  • Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
  • Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
  • Tangut, written in Tangut script

[edit] Hangul

• Korean

[edit] Hebrew alphabet

• Aramaic (and other writing systems)
• Bukhori
• Hebrew
• Hulaula
• Juhuri
• Ladino
• Lishan Didan
• Lishana Deni
• Lishanid Noshan
• Yiddish

[edit] Kana

• Japanese plus (kanji)
• Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone

[edit] Khitan scripts

• Khitan (extinct)

[edit] Latin alphabet

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Aragonese
• Asturian
• Aymara
• Azeri
• Basque
• Belarusian (formerly, called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic.)
• Bislama
• Boholano
• Bosnian
• Breton
• Catalan
• Cebuano
• Cornish
• Corsican
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Faroese
• Fijian
• Filipino
• Finnish
• French
• Frisian
• Friulian
• Fula (Pulaar)
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Galician
• German
• Gikuyu
• Guaraní
• Haitian
• Hausa (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
• Hawai'ian
• Hiti Motu
• Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000)
• Icelandic
• Ido
• Igbo
• Ilocano
• Indonesian
• Interlingua
• Innu-aimun
• Irish
• Italian
• Javanese - Also uses alphabet called "Hanacaraka" in certain areas
• Kikongo
• Kinyarwanda
• Kirundi
• Kurdish (Kurmanji)
• Latin
• Latvian
• Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
• Leonese
• Lingala
• Lithuanian
• Lombard
• Luganda
• Luxembourgish
• Maori
• Malagasy
• Malay
• Maltese
• Manx
• Marshallese
• Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
• Montenegrin
• Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
• Nauruan
• Navaho or Navajo
• Ndebele
• Norwegian
• Occitan
• Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
• Palauan
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Quechua
• Romanian (formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet)
• Romansh
• Rundi
• Samoan
• Scots
• Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
• Seychellois creole
• Shona
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Somali (formerly used the Arabic alphabet and Osmanya script)
• Sotho (Northern)
• Sotho (Southern)
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Swati
• Tagalog
• Tahitian
• Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
• Tetum
• Tok Pisin
• Tongan
• Tsonga
• Tswana
• Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
• Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
• Uzbek (official script, formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet)
• Venda
• Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
• Volapük
• Võro
• Walloon
• Welsh
• Wolof
• Xhosa
• Yoruba
• Zulu

[edit] N'ko

• N'ko

[edit] Nsibidi

• Ekoi
• Igbo

[edit] Ogham

• Primitive Irish
• Pictish

[edit] Mongolian and related scripts

[edit] Old Uyghur alphabet

• Uyghur (formerly)

[edit] Mongolian script

• Mongolian

[edit] Manchu script

• Manchu
• Xibe

[edit] Munda scripts

[edit] Sorang Sompeng

• Sora

[edit] Ol Cemet'

• Santali

[edit] Varang Kshiti

• Ho

[edit] Naxi script

• Naxi (obsolete)

[edit] Pahawh Hmong

• Hmong

[edit] Runic Alphabet

• Proto-Norse inscriptions
• Old Norse (also Latin alphabet)
• Old Danish (also Latin alphabet)
• Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin alphabet)
• Old Frisian (also Latin alphabet)

[edit] Old Hungarian script

• Hungarian (also Latin alphabet)

[edit] Syriac alphabet

• Arabic (see Garshuni)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
• Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
• Hertevin
• Koy Sanjaq Surat
• Senaya
• Syriac
• Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script)

[edit] Thaana

• Dhivehi (Official language of Maldives)

[edit] Tifinagh

• Amazigh (Morocco)
• Tuareg

[edit] Yi script

• Yi

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