List of languages by writing system
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[edit] Arabic script
- Arabic
- Azeri (Iran)
- Balochi
- Berber
- Fulani (on occasion)
- Hausa (on occasion)
- Kanuri (on occasion)
- Kashmiri
- Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
- Malagasy (until the 19th c.)
- Malay (14th - 17th c.)
- Ottoman Turkish
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Persian
- Pashtu
- Sindhi
- Sulu
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik (on occasion)
- Urdu
- Uyghur
Many languages of Russian and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
[edit] Armenian alphabet
[edit] Brahmic family and derivatives
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Burmese
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Korean (Hangul has been controversially claimed to derive from Phagspa)
- Lao
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mon
- Mongol (Phagspa)
- Oriya
- Punjabi (India)
- Sanskrit
- Shan
- Sinhala
- Tagalog and other Philippine languages (14th - 19th century)
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan
[edit] Canadian Syllabics
[edit] Cherokee Script
[edit] Cyrillic alphabet
[edit] Ge'ez script
[edit] Georgian alphabet
[edit] Greek alphabet
[edit] Modified Greek Alphabet
- Coptic (extinct) - Written in the Coptic alphabet which includes extra letters
- Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin alphabet
- Gothic (extinct) - Written in the Gothic alphabet
[edit] Han characters and derivatives
- Chinese
- Dong
- Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean (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)
[edit] Hebrew alphabet
- Aramaic (and other writing systems)
- Bukhori
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Juhuri
- Ladino
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Yiddish
[edit] Latin alphabet
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Asturian
- Azeri
- Basque
- Belarusian (formerly, called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic.)
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Fula (Pulaar)
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- Galician
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Hausa (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
- Hawai'ian
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese - Also uses alphabet called "Hanacaraka" in certain areas
- Kikongo
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- 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
- Samoan
- Scots
- Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali (formerly used the Arabic alphabet and Osmanya script)
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog/Filipino
- Tahitian
- Tatar
- Tongan
- Tswana
- Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
- Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Vietnamese
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
[edit] Og(h)am
[edit] Munda scripts
[edit] Sorang Sompeng
[edit] Ol Cemet'
[edit] Varang Kshiti
[edit] Pahawh Hmong script[1]
[edit] Runic Alphabet
- Proto-Norse inscriptions
- Old Norse (also Latin alphabet)
- Old English (also Latin alphabet)
- Old Frisian (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)
