List of languages by writing system
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This article is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).
[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
- in occasion Belarusian language
[edit] Armenian alphabet
[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)
[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
[edit] Burmese script (Myanmar)
[edit] Gujarati script
[edit] Gurmukhi script
- Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
[edit] Hanunó'o script
[edit] Kannada script
[edit] Khmer script
[edit] Lao script
[edit] Lontara script (Buginese)
- Buginese (formerly)
[edit] Malayalam script
[edit] Oriya script
[edit] Phagspa script
- Mongolian (formerly)
[edit] Sinhala script
[edit] Tagbanwa script
- Languages of Palawan
[edit] Tamil script
[edit] Telugu script
[edit] Thai script
[edit] Tibetan script
[edit] Canadian syllabics
[edit] Cherokee Script
[edit] Coptic alphabet
- Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
[edit] Cyrillic alphabet
[edit] Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)
[edit] Georgian alphabet
[edit] Glagolitic alphabet
- Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
[edit] Gothic alphabet
- Gothic (extinct)
[edit] Greek alphabet
[edit] Han characters and derivatives
- Chinese
- 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)
[edit] Hangul
[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] 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
- 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
[edit] N'ko
[edit] Og(h)am
[edit] Mongolian script
[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 Danish (also Latin alphabet)
- Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin alphabet)
- Old Frisian (also Latin alphabet)
- Old Hungarian
[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)