Alphasyllabary

True abugidas

• Brahmic family, descended from Brāhmī (c. 6th century BC)
  • Ahom
  • Balinese
  • Balti
  • Batak
  • Baybayin, pre-colonial script of Tagalog and other Philippine languages
  • Bengali
  • Bhujimol script
  • Box-head a script in India
  • Bugis also known as Makassar or Lontara
  • Buhid, used by Mangyans in Mindoro, Philippines
  • Burmese
  • Chalukya
  • Cham
  • Chola
  • Devanagari (used to write Nepali, Sanskrit, Pali, modern Hindi, Marathi etc.)
  • Dehong Dai
  • Golmol script
  • Grantha
  • Gujarati
  • Gurmukhi script
  • Hanuno'o, a script used by Mangyans in Mindoro, Philippines
  • Javanese script
  • Kadamba
  • Kaithi
  • Kannada
  • Khmer
  • Lanna
  • Lepcha
  • Limbu
  • Lao (before spelling reforms)
  • Malayalam
  • Manipuri
  • Modi used to write Marathi
  • Oriya
  • Old Kawi progenitor of Indonesian and Philippine scripts
  • Pachumol script
  • Phags-Pa created for Kublai Khan's Yuan China
  • Prachalit Nepal script
  • Ranjana
  • Redjang
  • Sharada
  • Siddham used to write Sanskrit
  • Sinhala
  • Sorang Sompeng
  • Sourashtra
  • Soyombo
  • Syloti Nagri
  • Tagbanwa in Palawan, Philippines
  • Tai Dam
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tirhuta used to write Maithili
  • Tocharian - extinct
  • Varang Kshiti
  • Vatteluttu aka round script
• Kharoṣṭhī (extinct), from the 3rd century BC
• Ge'ez (Ethiopic), from the 4th century AD
• Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
  • Cree-Ojibwe syllabics
  • Inuktitut syllabics
  • Blackfoot syllabics
  • Carrier syllabics

Abugida-like scripts

• Meroitic (extinct)
• Thaana
• Pitman shorthand
• Pollard script

External links

• Syllabic alphabets - Omniglot's list of abugidas, including examples of various writing systems
• Alphabets - list of abugidas and other scripts (in Spanish)

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