- List of languages by writing system
This article is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).
Arabic alphabet *Arabic
*Azeri (Iran)
*Balochi
*Berber
*Fulani (on occasion)
*Hausa (on occasion)
*Kanuri (on occasion)
*Kashmiri
*Kazakh inChina
*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
*UyghurMany languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
*Bashkir
*Kazakh
*Kyrgyz
*Tatar
*Uzbek*in occasion
Belarusian language Armenian alphabet Brahmic family and derivativesDevanagari *Sanskrit
*Hindi
*Marathi
*Maithili
*Bhojpuri
*Nepali
*Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
*Konkani
*Kashmiri
*Bodo
*Dogri
=Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese)=Balinese script *
Balinese language (formerly)*Ilokano (formerly)
*Kapampangan (formerly)
*Pangasinan (formerly)
*Tagalog (formerly)
*Bikol language (formerly)
*Visayan languages (formerly)Buhid script Burmese script (Myanmar)Gujarati script Gurmukhi script *Punjabi (also written in
Shahmukhi , a variant of theArabic script )Hanunó'o script *Hanunó'o
Javanese script (Hanacaraka)*Javanese (in old literatures, and a part of cultural heritage)
*SundaneseKannada script Khmer script Lao script *Lao
Lepcha script Limbu script Lontara script (Buginese)*Buginese (formerly)
Malayalam script Oriya script Phagspa script *Mongolian (formerly)
Sinhala script Tagbanwa script *
Languages of Palawan Tamil script Telugu script Thai script *Thai
Tibetan script *Blackfoot
*Chipewyan
*Cree
*Dakelh
*Inuktitut
*Ojibwe
*Sekani
*Slavey
*Tasttine
*TłįchǫCoptic alphabet *
Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)Cyrillic alphabet Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)*Amharic
*Ge'ez
*TigrignaGeorgian alphabet Glagolitic alphabet *
Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)Gothic alphabet *Gothic (extinct)
Greek alphabet *Bactrian (extinct)
*Greek
*Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin alphabetHan characters and derivatives*Chinese
**Guan (Mandarin)
**Wu which includesShanghainese
**Yue (Cantonese)
**Min which includesTaiwanese
**Xiang
**Hakka
**Gan
**Jin from Mandarin
**Huizhou from Wu
**Ping partly from Cantonese
*Dong
*Japanese (kanji pluskana 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)Hangul Hebrew alphabet *Aramaic (and other writing systems)
*Bukhori
*Hebrew
*Hulaula
*Juhuri
*Ladino
*Lishan Didan
*Lishana Deni
*Lishanid Noshan
*YiddishKana *Japanese plus (
kanji )
*Ainu slightly modified kind ofkatakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants aloneLatin 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 theArabic 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
*Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
*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 theArabic alphabet andOsmanya script )
*Spanish
*Swahili
*Swedish
*Tagalog
*Tahitian
*Tatar (formerly used Arabic,1927 -1938 Latin-derivedJanalif , thenCyrillic and since2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
*Tongan
*Tswana
*Turkish (formerly used theArabic alphabet )
*Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originallySyriac alphabet )
*Vietnamese (formerly withChữ nho andChữ nôm )
*Volapük
*Võro
*Walloon
*Welsh
*Wolof
*Xhosa
*Yoruba
*ZuluN'ko
*
N'ko Og(h)am
*
Primitive Irish
*PictishMongolian script
=Munda scripts=Sorang Sompeng *Sora
Ol Cemet'
Varang Kshiti *Ho
Pahawh Hmong Runic Alphabet
*
Proto-Norse inscriptions
*Old Norse (alsoLatin alphabet )
*Old Danish (alsoLatin alphabet )
*Old English/Anglo-Saxon (alsoLatin alphabet )
*Old Frisian (alsoLatin alphabet )
*Old Hungarian 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)Thaana Tifinagh *Amazigh (Morocco)
*TuaregYi script *Yi
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