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| Type of writing system |
Language units represented |
Writing system |
Index of languages by writing system |
Scripts |
Orthographies |
| Meaning based |
Morphemes |
Logograms / Semanto-phonetic
(MAP)
 |
Chinese scripts (漢字) |
Simplified Chinese |
Simplified Chinese: 简化字 |
| Hanzi |
List of Ortographies [ + ]
[ - ]
Classical Chinese: 文言文
Vernacular Chinese: 汉字 / 漢字
Vernacular Cantonese: 廣州話 / 广州话 / Gwóngjàu wá
Vernacular Donggan: 東干語 / 东干语
Vernacular Minnan: 白話字 / báihuà zì |
| Kanji |
Japanese: 日本語 / Nihongo |
| Hanja |
Korean: 韓國語 |
| Sound-based |
Syllables |
Syllabaries
(MAP)
 |
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ) |
Cree (Nêhiyaw) |
Western Cree syllabics, Eastern Cree syllabics |
|
List of Scripts [ + ]
[ - ]
Inuktitut (Titirausiq nutaaq)
Naskapi (Innu Aimun)
Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)
Blackfoot (Siksika)*
Carrier (Dulkw'ahke)* |
idem |
| Others |
List of Scripts [ + ]
[ - ]
Cherokee (Tsalagi)
Mende
Ndjuká
Yi (Lolo)
Nüshu*
Vai* |
idem |
| Kana |
Hiragana (Japanese), Katakana (Japanese) |
|
Syllabic alphabets / Abugidas
(MAP)
|
Bengali (বাংলা) |
idem |
Bengali, Assamese |
| Devanagari (दवनागरी) |
idem |
Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit, Sindhi |
| Tibetan |
idem |
Tibetan, Bhutanese |
| Ge'ez (Ethiopic) (ፊደል) |
idem |
Amharic, Ge'ez, Tigrinya |
|
List of Writing systems [ + ]
[ - ]
Balinese*
Baybayin (Tagalog*)
Buhid
Burmese/Myanmar
Cham
Dehong Dai
Devanāgarī
Gujarāti
Gurmukhi (Punjabi)
Hanuno'o
Javanese (Huruf Jawa)*
Kannada
Khmer
Lanna
Lao
Lepcha (Róng-Ríng)
Limbu / Kirati
Lontara/Makasar*
Malayalam
Manipuri (Meetei Mayek)
New Tai Lue
Oriya
Pahawh Hmong
Ranjana*
Redjang/Kaganga*
Sharda*
Siddham*
Sinhala
Sorang Sompeng
Sourashtra*
Soyombo*
Sundanese*
Syloti Nagri*
Tagbanwa*
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Varang Kshiti |
idem |
idem |
| Phonemes |
Consonantal / Abjads
(MAP)
|
Arabic العربية |
idem |
List of Orthographies [ + ]
[ - ]
Arabic
Azeri
Baluchi
Bosnian
Dari
Hausa
Kabyle
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Kurdish
Kyrghyz
Malay
Pashto
Persian/Farsi
Saraiki (Siraiki)
Shahmukhi (Punjabi)
Shabaki
Sindhi
Tatar
Turkish
Urdu
Uyghur |
| Syriac |
idem |
idem |
| Hebrew (Ivrit / עברית / עִבְרִית) |
idem |
List of Orthographies [ + ]
[ - ]
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Ladino
Yiddish
Judæo-Tat |
|
Alphabetic
(MAP)
 |
Featural linear alphabets |
Hangul |
Korean (한국어 / 조선말) |
|
List of Scripts [ + ]
[ - ]
Gregg Shorthand
Shavian
Tengwar
Visible Speech
SignWriting
SpeechWriting |
idem |
| Linear non-featural alphabets |
Cyrillic (Кириллица) |
List of Orthographies [ + ]
[ - ]
Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altay, Avar, Azeri, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash,
Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Ingush,
Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khanty, Kildin Sami, Komi, Koryak,
Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrghyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Macedonian,
Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Old
Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Slovio,
Tabassaran, Tajik, Tatar, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udmurt, Ukrainian,
Uyghur, Uzbek, Votic, Yakut, Yukaghir, Yupik |
| Georgian (Ⴋხედრული / Mkhedruli) |
Georgian, Laz, Svan |
| Greek (Ελληνικά) |
Arvanitic, Greek |
|
List of Writing systems [ + ]
[ - ]
Armenian
Bassa (Vah)
Fraser
Kayah Li
Korean (hangŭl)
Manchu
Mongolian
N'Ko
Ol Cemet'/Ol Chiki (Santali)
Oirat Clear Script
Shorthand
Pollard Miao
Tai Dam
Thaana |
idem |
| Tifinagh |
Kabyle, Tamazight |
| Latin |
List of Orthographies [ + ]
[ - ]
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan,
Alabama, Albanian, Aleut, Alsatian, Apache, Aragonese, Aranese, Arapaho,
Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri, Bambara,
Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Breton, Burushaski, Catalan, Cayuga, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chechen, Cheyenne, Cimbrian,
Chichewa, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Cornish, Corsican, Cape Verdean
Creole, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Dinka, Drehu,
Duala, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Ewondo, Eyak, Faroese,
Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian,
Friulian, Ga, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi,
Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Guarani, Gugadja/Kukatja, Gwich’in,
Haida, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hausa, Hawaiian, Herero, Hiligaynon,
Hixkaryana, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano,
Indonesian, Iñupiaq, Irish, Italian, Jamaican
Creole, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kabyle, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan,
Karakalpak, Karamojong, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati,
Kirundi, Klallam, Klamath, Kurdish, Kwakiutl, Lingala, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian,
Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malagasy, Malay,
Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marshallese, Meriam Mir, Miami, Mi'kmaq, Mirandese,
Mohawk, Montagnais, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese, Nahuatl, Nàmá, Naskapi,
Navajo, Naxi, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian,
Northern Sotho, Nǀuu, Occitan, Okinawan, O'odham,
Oneida, OshiWambo, Ossetian, Papiamento, Piedmontese,
Pirahã, Pitjantjatjara, Polish, Pomo (Eastern), Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua,
Rarotongan, Rotokas, Romanian, Romansh, Romany, Rotuman, Saami/Sami,
Saanich, Samoan, Sango, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Seychelles
Creole, Shavante, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sioux, Slovak,
Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili,
Swati/Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar, Taiwanese, Tetum,
Tlingit, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen,
Tuscarora, Tuvaluan, Tuvan, Twi, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese,
Võro, Wakhi, Walloon, Warlpiri, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan,
Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yolngu, Yoruba, Zapotec,
Zhuang, Zulu.
Other: Folkspraak, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latino
sine Flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban, Novial, Occidental, Old Norse, Slovio, Volapük, |
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