List of languages by writing system

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 Phagspa script 3.20 Sinhala script 3.21 Tagbanwa script 3.22 Tamil script 3.23 Telugu script 3.24 Thai script 3.25 Tibetan script 4 Canadian syllabics 5 Cherokee Script 6 Coptic alphabet 7 Cyrillic alphabet 8 Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic) 9 Georgian alphabet 10 Glagolitic alphabet 11 Gothic alphabet 12 Greek alphabet 13 Han characters and derivatives 14 Hangul 15 Hebrew alphabet 16 Kana 17 Latin alphabet 18 N'ko 19 Og(h)am 20 Mongolian script 21 Munda scripts 21.1 Sorang Sompeng 21.2 Ol Cemet' 21.3 Varang Kshiti 22 Pahawh Hmong 23 Runic Alphabet 24 Syriac alphabet 25 Thaana 26 Tifinagh 27 Yi script

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

Armenian alphabet

• Armenian

Brahmic family and derivatives

Devanagari

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

Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese)

• Bengali
• Assamese
• Meitei

Balinese script

• Balinese language (formerly)

Baybayin script (Tagalog)

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

Buhid script

• Buhid

Burmese script (Myanmar)

• Burmese

Gujarati script

• Gujarati

Gurmukhi script

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

Hanunó'o script

• Hanunó'o

Javanese script (Hanacaraka)

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

Kannada script

• Kannada
• Konkani
• Tulu

Khmer script

• Khmer

Lao script

• Lao

Lepcha script

• Lepcha

Limbu script

• Limbu

Lontara script (Buginese)

• Buginese (formerly)

Malayalam script

• Malayalam
• Konkani

Oriya script

• Oriya

Phagspa script

• Mongolian (formerly)

Sinhala script

• Sinhala

Tagbanwa script

• Languages of Palawan

Tamil script

• Tamil

Telugu script

• Telugu

Thai script

• Thai

Tibetan script

• Tibetan
• Dzongkha
• Ladakhi

Canadian syllabics

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

Cherokee Script

• Cherokee

Coptic alphabet

• Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)

Cyrillic alphabet

Main article: Languages using Cyrillic

Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)

• Amharic
• Ge'ez
• Tigrigna

Georgian alphabet

• Georgian
• Laz
• Mingrelian
• Svan

Glagolitic alphabet

• Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)

Gothic alphabet

• Gothic (extinct)

Greek alphabet

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

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
• Dong
• Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
• Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts, and newspapers.)
• Khitan (extinct)
• Tangut (extinct)
• Jurchen (extinct)
• Zhuang (obsolete)
• Miao (obsolete)
• Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (almost extinct)
• Nakhi (the Geba script, fell into disuse)

Hangul

• Korean

Hebrew alphabet

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

Kana

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

Latin alphabet

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Aragonese
• Asturian
• Azeri
• Basque
• Belarusian (formerly, called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic.)
• Boholano
• Breton
• Catalan
• Cebuano
• Cornish
• Corsican
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Faroese
• Filipino
• Finnish
• French
• Frisian
• Friulian
• Fula (Pulaar)
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Galician
• German
• Gikuyu
• Guaraní
• Hausa (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
• Hawai'ian
• Hungarian (used runic writing system 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
• Malay
• Maltese
• Manx
• Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
• Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
• Navaho or Navajo
• Ndebele
• Norwegian
• Occitan
• Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Quechua
• Romanian (formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet
• Samoan
• Scots
• Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
• Shona
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Somali (formerly used the Arabic alphabet and Osmanya script)
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tahitian
• Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
• Tongan
• Tswana
• Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
• Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
• Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
• Volapük
• Võro
• Walloon
• Welsh
• Wolof
• Xhosa
• Yoruba
• Zulu

N'ko

• N'ko

Og(h)am

• Primitive Irish
• Pictish

Mongolian script

• Mongolian

Munda scripts

Sorang Sompeng

• Sora

Ol Cemet'

• Santali

Varang Kshiti

• Ho

Pahawh Hmong

• Hmong

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)
• Old Hungarian

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)

Thaana

• Dhivehi

Tifinagh

• Amazigh (Morocco)
• Tuareg

Yi script

• Yi

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