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 Borama script 4 Brahmic family and derivatives 4.1 Devanagari 4.2 Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese) 4.3 Balinese script 4.4 Baybayin script (Tagalog) 4.5 Buhid script 4.6 Burmese script (Myanmar) 4.7 Gujarati script 4.8 Gurmukhi script 4.9 Hanunó'o script 4.10 Javanese script (Hanacaraka) 4.11 Kannada script 4.12 Khmer script 4.13 Lao script 4.14 Lepcha script 4.15 Limbu script 4.16 Lontara script (Buginese) 4.17 Malayalam script 4.18 Oriya script 4.19 'Phags-pa script 4.20 Sinhala script 4.21 Tagbanwa script 4.22 Tamil script 4.23 Telugu script 4.24 Thaana script 4.25 Thai script 4.26 Tibetan script 5 Canadian syllabics 6 Cherokee Script 7 Coptic alphabet 8 Cyrillic alphabet 9 Croatian or Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) 10 Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic) 11 Georgian alphabet 12 Glagolitic alphabet 13 Gothic alphabet 14 Greek alphabet 15 Han characters and derivatives 16 Hangul 17 Hebrew alphabet 18 Kaddare script 19 Kana 20 Khitan scripts 21 Latin alphabet 22 Mongolian and related scripts 22.1 Old Uyghur alphabet 22.2 Mongolian script 22.3 Manchu script 23 Munda scripts 23.1 Sorang Sompeng 23.2 Ol Cemet' 23.3 Varang Kshiti 24 N'ko 25 Naxi script 26 Nsibidi 27 Ogham 28 Osmanya script 29 Pahawh Hmong 30 Runic Alphabet 31 Old Hungarian script 32 Syriac alphabet 33 Tifinagh 34 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

Borama script

• Somali

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
• Karen
  • Geba Karen
  • Pa’o
  • Pwo Karen
  • S'gaw Karen
• Mon
• Rumai Palaung
• Shan

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

'Phags-pa script

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

Sinhala script

• Sinhala

Tagbanwa script

• Languages of Palawan

Tamil script

• Tamil

Telugu script

• Telugu

Thaana script

• Dhivehi

Thai script

• Thai

Tibetan script

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

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

• Belarusian
• Bulgarian
• Kazakh
• Macedonian
• Mongolian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Ukrainian

Croatian or Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)

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

Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)

• Amharic
• Ge'ez
• Tigrigna

Georgian alphabet

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

Glagolitic alphabet

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

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
• 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) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use, virtually extinct)
• Extinct languages
  • Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
  • Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
  • Tangut, written in Tangut script

Hangul

• Korean
• Cia-Cia

Hebrew alphabet

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

Kaddare script

• Somali

Kana

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

Khitan scripts

• Khitan (extinct)

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
• Slovene
• 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
• Zazaki

Mongolian and related scripts

Old Uyghur alphabet

• Uyghur (formerly)

Mongolian script

• Mongolian

Manchu script

• Manchu
• Xibe

Munda scripts

Sorang Sompeng

• Sora

Ol Cemet'

• Santali

Varang Kshiti

• Ho

N'ko

• N'ko

Naxi script

• Naxi (obsolete)

Nsibidi

• Ekoi
• Igbo

Ogham

• Primitive Irish
• Pictish

Osmanya script

• Somali

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 script

• Hungarian (also Latin alphabet)

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)

Tifinagh

• Amazigh (Morocco)
• Tuareg

Yi script

• Yi

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