List of languages by writing system
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This is a list of languages which uses writing system to sort.
Arabic script [change]
- Arabic
- Azeri (Iran)
- Balochi
- Berber
- Fulani (on occasion)
- Hausa (on occasion)
- Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
- Kanuri (on occasion)
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh in China
- Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
- Malagasy (until the 19th century)
- Malay (14th - 17th century)
- Mazanderani
- Mozarabic (now extinct)
- Ottoman Turkish
- Pashtu
- Persian
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Saraiki
- Sindhi
- Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik (on occasion)
- Tausug
- Urdu
- Uyghur
Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
Armenian script [change]
Borama script [change]
Brahmic family and derivatives [change]
Devanagari [change]
- Sanskrit
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Maithili
- Bhojpuri
- Nepali
- Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
- Konkani
- Kashmiri
- Bodo
- Dogri
Assamese/Bengali [change]
Balinese script [change]
- Balinese language (formerly)
Baybayin script [change]
- Ilokano (formerly)
- Kapampangan (formerly)
- Pangasinan (formerly)
- Tagalog (formerly)
- Bikol language (formerly)
- Visayan languages (formerly)
Buhid script [change]
Burmese script [change]
Gujarati script [change]
Gurmukhi script [change]
- Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
Kaithi script [change]
Hanunó'o script [change]
Javanese script (Hanacaraka) [change]
Kannada script [change]
Khmer script [change]
Lao script [change]
Lepcha script [change]
Limbu script [change]
Lontara script (Buginese) [change]
- Buginese (formerly)
Malayalam script [change]
Oriya script [change]
'Phags-pa script [change]
- Chinese (formerly)
- Mongolian (formerly)
- Sanskrit (formerly)
- Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
- Uyghur (formerly)
Sinhala script [change]
Tagbanwa script [change]
Tamil script [change]
Telugu script [change]
Thaana script [change]
Thai script [change]
Tibetan script [change]
- Tibetan
- Dzongkha
- Ladakhi
- Zhang-Zhung (extinct)
Canadian Aboriginal script [change]
Cherokee script [change]
Coptic alphabet [change]
- Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Cyrillic script [change]
Main page: Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Mongolian
- Russian
- Serbian (also Latin script)
- Ukrainian
- Tajiki
Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) [change]
Ge'ez script (Ethiopic) [change]
Georgian script [change]
- Georgian
- Laz (sometimes Latin)
- Mingrelian
- Svan
Glagolitic alphabet [change]
- Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
- Croatian (formerly)
Gothic alphabet [change]
- Gothic (extinct)
Greek script [change]
- Bactrian (extinct)
- Greek
- Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
Chinese characters and derivatives [change]
- Chinese
- 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 [change]
Hebrew script [change]
- Aramaic (and other writing systems)
- Bukhori
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Judeo-Berber
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
- Judeo-Moroccan
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems)
- Judeo-Yemenite
- Juhuri
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Shuadit
- Yiddish
- Zarphatic
Kaddare script [change]
Kana [change]
- Japanese (plus kanji)
- Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone
Khitan scripts [change]
- Khitan (extinct)
Latin script [change]
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Aymara
- Azeri
- Basque
- Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic)
- Bislama
- Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chamorro
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Filipino (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Finnish
- French
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Fula (Pulaar)
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- Galician
- Ganda
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Haitian
- Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Hawai'ian
- Hiti Motu
- Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000)
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Ilocano (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Indonesian
- Interlingua
- Innu-aimun
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese - Also uses an alphabet called Hanacaraka in certain areas
- Judeo-Spanish - Also uses other scripts
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Kongo
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Latin
- Latvian
- Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
- Leonese
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- 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 a Cyrillic alphabet)
- Romansh
- Samoan
- Scots
- Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
- Seychellois creole
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and Osmanya script)
- Sotho (Northern)
- Sotho (Southern)
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Swati
- Tagalog (formerly used the Baybayin)
- 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 script)
- Turoyo (new Latin alphabet, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Uzbek (official script, formerly used Cyrillic)
- Venda
- Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
- Volapük
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
- Zazaki
Mayan script [change]
- Mayan languages (formerly)
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Old Uyghur alphabet [change]
- Uyghur (formerly)
Mongolian script [change]
Manchu script [change]
Munda scripts [change]
Sorang Sompeng [change]
Ol Cemet' [change]
Varang Kshiti [change]
N'Ko script [change]
Naxi script [change]
- Naxi (obsolete)
Nsibidi [change]
Ogham [change]
Osmanya script [change]
Pahawh Hmong [change]
Runic script [change]
- Proto-Norse inscriptions
- Old Norse (also Latin script)
- Old Danish (also Latin script)
- Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin script)
- Old Frisian (also Latin script)
Old Hungarian script [change]
- Hungarian (also Latin script)
Syriac script [change]
- 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)
