List of languages by writing system
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Parkaran
Arabic script[change | change source]
- Arabic
- Azeri (Iran)
- Balochi
- Berber
- Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script)
- 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
- Pashto
- Persian
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Saraiki
- Sindhi
- Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik (on occasion)
- Tausug
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Yoruba (rarely see Ajami script)
Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
Armenian script[change | change source]
Borama script[change | change source]
Brahmic family and derivatives[change | change source]
Devanagari[change | change source]
- Sanskrit
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Maithili
- Bhojpuri
- Nepali
- Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
- Konkani
- Kashmiri
- Bodo
- Dogri
- Gondi,Adilabad
- Gondi, Aheri
- Andh
- Angika
- Asuri
- Athpariya
- Awadhi
- Bagheli
- Bagri
- Bahing
- Bantawa
- Baram
- Bateri
- Belhariya
- Bhadrawahi
- Bharia
- Bhatri
Assamese/Bengali[change | change source]
Balinese script[change | change source]
- Balinese language (formerly)
Baybayin script[change | change source]
- Ilokano (formerly)
- Kapampangan (formerly)
- Pangasinan (formerly)
- Tagalog (formerly)
- Bikol language (formerly)
- Visayan languages (formerly)
Buhid script[change | change source]
Burmese script[change | change source]
Gujarati script[change | change source]
Gurmukhi script[change | change source]
- Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
Hanunó'o script[change | change source]
Javanese script (Hanacaraka)[change | change source]
Kannada script[change | change source]
Khmer script[change | change source]
Lao script[change | change source]
Lepcha script[change | change source]
Limbu script[change | change source]
Lontara script (Buginese)[change | change source]
- Buginese (formerly)
Malayalam script[change | change source]
Oriya script[change | change source]
'Phags-pa script[change | change source]
- Chinese (formerly)
- Mongolian (formerly)
- Sanskrit (formerly)
- Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
- Uyghur (formerly)
Sinhala script[change | change source]
Tagbanwa script[change | change source]
Tamil script[change | change source]
Telugu script[change | change source]
Thaana script[change | change source]
Thai script[change | change source]
Tibetan script[change | change source]
- Tibetan
- Dzongkha
- Ladakhi
- Zhang-Zhung (extinct)
Canadian Aboriginal script[change | change source]
Cherokee script[change | change source]
Coptic alphabet[change | change source]
- Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Cyrillic script[change | change source]
- Abkhaz
- Belarusian
- Bosnian (also Latin script and Arebica)
- Bulgarian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Dungan
- Interslavic (also Latin script)
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
- Kazakh
- Komi
- Kyrgyz
- Macedonian
- Mongolian
- Ossetic
- Russian
- Rusyn
- Serbian (also Latin script)
- Tajiki
- Tatar
- Tuvan
- Udmurt
- Ukrainian
Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)[change | change source]
Ge'ez script (Ethiopic)[change | change source]
Georgian script[change | change source]
- Georgian
- Laz (sometimes Latin)
- Mingrelian
- Svan
Glagolitic alphabet[change | change source]
- Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
- Croatian (formerly)
Gothic alphabet[change | change source]
- Gothic (extinct)
Greek script[change | change source]
- Bactrian (extinct)
- Greek
- Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
Chinese characters and derivatives[change | change source]
- 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 | change source]
Hebrew script[change | change source]
- 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 | change source]
Kana[change | change source]
- Japanese (plus kanji)
- Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone
Khitan scripts[change | change source]
- Khitan (extinct)
Latin script[change | change source]
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Aymara
- Azeri
- Basque
- Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic)
- Bislama
- Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Bosnian ( also Cyrillic script and Arebica )
- 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
- Mingrelia
- 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 | change source]
- Mayan languages (formerly)
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Old Uyghur alphabet[change | change source]
- Uyghur (formerly)
Mongolian script[change | change source]
Manchu script[change | change source]
Munda scripts[change | change source]
Sorang Sompeng[change | change source]
Ol Cemet'[change | change source]
Varang Kshiti[change | change source]
N'Ko script[change | change source]
Naxi script[change | change source]
- Naxi (obsolete)
Nsibidi[change | change source]
Ogham[change | change source]
Osmanya script[change | change source]
Pahawh Hmong[change | change source]
Runic script[change | change source]
- 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 | change source]
- Hungarian (also Latin script)
Syriac script[change | change source]
- 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)