List of languages by writing system
Below is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).
Adlam alphabet
- Fulfulde/Pular
Afaka syllabary
- Ndyuka (on occasion)
Anatolian alphabets
- Anatolian languages (extinct)
Arabic script
- Acehnese (on occasion, after the colonization by the Dutch)
- Adyghe (before 1927 and Latin script [1927–1938], now uses the Cyrillic script)
- Afrikaans (briefly, in the early 19th century)
- Arabic
- Algerian
- Egyptian
- Lebanese
- Moroccan
- Iraqi
- Tunisian
and many other varieties of Arabic.
- Afar (Kabir Hamza script)
- Azerbaijani (Iran only)
- Arwi
- Bakhtiari
- Balochi
- Balti
- Banjar
- Bashkir
- Belarusian (on occasion)
- Bengali language (Historical) (along with Bengali, Sylheti and Assamese script)
- Berber
- Bhadrawahi
- Bosnian (formerly)
- Brahui
- Burushaski (on occasion)
- Central Kurdish
- Cham
- Chechen (alongside the Georgian script)
- Chinese in the Arabic-derived Xiao'erjing alphabet
- Comorian
- Crimean Tatar (before 1928)
- Dari
- Dungan (now uses the Cyrillic script)
- Dogri (also uses Devanāgarī in India and Takri script)
- Dyula
- French in Algeria and other parts of North Africa during the French colonial period.
- Filipino used by Muslims from the 14th century to the 16th century, now the Arabic script for Filipino is extinct and is replaced by Spanish in Latin script, which uses the letter Ñ as an extra letter.
- Fulani (on occasion)
- Gilaki
- Greek (on occasion in certain areas of Greece and Anatolia)
- Harari (originally, now uses the Ge'ez script)
- Hausa (on occasion)
- Ingush (at the beginning of the 20th century)
- Javanese (see Pegon alphabet)
- Jola-Fonyi
- Judeo-Arabic languages
- Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
- Kanuri (on occasion)
- Karakalpak (before 1928)
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh in China
- Khowar
- Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
- Kyrgyz
- Lak (now uses the Cyrillic script)
- Lezgin
- Luri
- Madurese (with the Pegon alphabet)
- Malagasy (until the 19th century)
- Malay (14th – 20th century)
- Mandinka
- Marwari (Pakistan)
- Mazanderani
- Minangkabau
- Mozarabic (now extinct)
- Nobiin (algongside Latin script)
- Ngai (before 1928 and Latin [1928–1938], now uses the Cyrillic)
- Ottoman Turkish (extinct)
- Pashtu
- Persian (Iran and Afghanistan)
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Qashqai
- Rohingya (also uses the Latin script)
- Salar
- Saraiki
- Sindhi
- Somali (see Wadaad's writing)
- Songhay
- Spanish (before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik (formerly)
- Talysh
- Tatar
- Tausug
- Tuareg
- Turkish (formerly)
- Turkmen (on occasion in Iran and Afghanistan)
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek (Formerly, now Cyrillic and Latin are more commonly used)
- Wakhi
- Wolio
- Wolof known as Wolofal
- Yoruba in the 17th century with the Ajami script
- Zarma (formerly)
Aramaic 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)
- Mongolian
Armenian script
ASL-phabet
- Various sign languages
- American Sign Language (also si5s, SignWriting, and Stokoe notation)
Borama script
Brahmic family and derivatives
Bengali–Assamese script
- Assamese alphabet:
- Bengali alphabet
- Bengali (Bangla)
- Sylheti
- Bishnupriya Manipuri
- Meitei Manipuri
- Khasi (also written in Latin)
- Hajong
- Kokborok
- Bodo (formerly)
- Karbi (formerly)
- Mising (formerly)
- Mithilakshara/Tirhuta (Maithili alphabet)
- Maithili
- Anga Lipi
- Angika
Baybayin script
- Ilokano (formerly)
- Pangasinan (formerly)
- Tagalog (formerly)
- Bikol language (formerly)
- Visayan languages (formerly)
Chakma
Gurmukhi script
- Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
Hanunó'o script
- Hanunó'o
Javanese script (Hanacaraka)
Malayalam script
- Malayalam
Meitei Mayek
Modi
- Marathi (formerly)
'Phags-pa script
Ranjana
- Nepal Bhasa
Saurashtra
Syloti Nagri script
- Sylheti (formerly)
Tagbanwa script
- Palawan languages
Thaana script
- Dhivehi (Maldivian)
- Malé Latin
- Bali
Tibetan script
- Tibetan
- Dzongkha
- Ladakhi
- Zhang-Zhung (extinct)
Caucasian Albanian alphabet
- Udi (formerly)
Coptic alphabet
- Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Cyrillic script
- Belarusian (also Latin script)
- Bosnian (also Latin script)
- Bulgarian
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
- Kazakh (to be replaced with Latin script by 2025)
- Kyrgyz
- Macedonian
- Mongolian (also Mongolian script and Latin script)
- Montenegrin (also uses Latin script)
- Russian
- Serbian (also Latin script)
- Ukrainian
- Persian (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
Ge'ez script (Eritrean and Ethiopic)
Georgian script
- Georgian
- Laz (sometimes Latin)
- Mingrelian
- Svan
Glagolitic alphabet
- Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
- Croatian (formerly)
Gothic alphabet
- Gothic (extinct)
Greek script
- Greek
- Coptic Egyptian
- Bactrian (extinct)
- Gaulish (extinct) – Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
- Karamanli Turkish (extinct)
Chinese characters and derivatives
- Chinese
- Minority languages in China
- Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean (hanja) (used in academic texts and newspapers along with official documents)
- Vietnamese (Han-Nom) (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
Hebrew script
- Aramaic (and other writing systems)
- Bukhori
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
- Judeo-Moroccan
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems)
- Judeo-Yemenite
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Iranian
- Shuadit
- Yiddish
- Zarphatic
Old Italic script
- Italic (extinct)
Khitan scripts
- Khitan (extinct)
Latin script
- Acehnese (also uses the Arabic script)
- Afar (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Aymara
- Azeri (formerly used the Cyrillic script)
- Banjar (also uses the Arabic script)
- Basque
- Belarusian (also uses the Cyrillic script, and occasionally the Lacinka alphabet)
- Betawi
- Berber / Tamazight (Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Niger)
- Bislama
- Boholano (formerly used Baybayin)
- Bosnian (also uses the Cyrillic script)
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chamorro
- Cherokee (also uses the Cherokee script)
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Cree
- Czech
- Danish
- Dayak
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Finnish
- French
- Fula (Pulaar)
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- Galician
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Hawaiian
- Hiri Motu
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Ilocano (formerly used Baybayin)
- Indonesian
- Interlingua
- Innu-aimun
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese (also uses the Javanese script)
- Judeo-Spanish (also used other scripts)
- Kabylian Berber
- Khasi (also uses the Bengali script)
- Kazakh (formerly used the Arabic script; used alongside the Cyrillic script)
- Kinyarwanda
- Klingon language (also uses its own fictional writing system.)
- Kirundi
- Kongo
- Konkani
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Latin
- Latvian
- Laz
- Leonese
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Luganda
- Luxembourgish
- Maori
- Malagasy
- Malay (also uses the Arabic script)
- Maltese
- Manx
- Marshallese
- Mauritian Creole
- Minangkabau (also uses the Arabic script)
- Moldovan (also uses the Cyrillic script)
- Montenegrin (also uses the Cyrillic script)
- Nahuatl (after the Spanish conquest)
- Nauruan
- Navaho or Navajo
- Nias
- Ndebele (Northern)
- Ndebele (Southern)
- North Frisian
- Norwegian
- Occitan
- Oromo (formerly used the Ge'ez script)
- Palauan
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Rohingya (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Romanian (formerly used the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet)
- Romansh
- Samoan
- Sasak
- Saterland Frisian
- Scots
- Serbian (officially uses the Cyrillic script)
- Seychellois creole
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and the Osmanya script)
- Sotho (Northern)
- Sotho (Southern)
- Spanish
- Sundanese (also uses the Sundanese script)
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Swati
- Tagalog (formerly used Baybayin)
- Tahitian
- Tatar (formerly used the Arabic script, then Janalif, and then the Cyrillic script)
- Tetum
- Tok Pisin
- Tongan
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tunisian Arabic (also uses the Arabic script)
- Turkish (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Turkmen (formerly used the Cyrillic script)
- Turoyo (formerly used the Syriac alphabet)
- Uzbek (formerly used the Arabic script and then the Cyrillic script; the latter still in widespread use)
- Venda
- Vietnamese (formerly used Han-Nom)
- Vastese
- Volapük
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- West Frisian
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zazaki
- Zulu
Meetei Mayek
- Meetei language
Mesoamerican scripts
Epi-Olmec script
- Olmec (extinct)
Maya script
(Almost extinct although still used in some areas)
Olmec script
- Olmec (extinct)
Zapotec script
- Aloápam Zapotec
- Amatlán Zapotec
- Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec
- Ayoquezco Zapotec
- Cajonos Zapotec
- Chichicápam Zapotec
- Choápam Zapotec
- Coatecas Altas Zapotec
- Santo Domingo Coatlán Zapotec
- El Alto Zapotec
- Elotepec Zapotec
- Guevea Zapotec
- Güilá Zapotec
- Isthmus Zapotec
- Lachiguiri Zapotec
- Lachixío Zapotec
- Lapaguía Zapotec
- Loxicha Zapotec
- Mazaltepec Zapotec
- Miahuatlán Zapotec
- Mitla Zapotec
- San Juan Mixtepec Zapotec
- Ocotlán Zapotec
- Ozolotepec Zapotec
- Petapa Zapotec
- Quiavicuzas Zapotec
- Quioquitani Zapotec
- Rincón Zapotec
- San Agustín Mixtepec Zapotec
- San Baltázar Loxicha Zapotec
- Guelavía Zapotec
- Quiatoni Zapotec
- San Vicente Zapotec
- Santa Catarina Albarradas Zapotec
- Yatzeche Zapotec
- Quiegolani Zapotec
- Xánica Zapotec
- Albarradas Zapotec
- Ixtlán Zapotec
- Yavesía Zapotec
- Rincón Zapotec
- Tabaá Zapotec
- Tejalapan Zapotec
- Texmelucan Zapotec
- Tilquiapan Zapotec
- Tlacolulita Zapotec
- Totomachapan Zapotec
- Xadani Zapotec
- Xanaguía Zapotec
- Yalálag Zapotec
- Ixtlán Zapotec
- Yatee Zapotec
- Yatzachi Zapotec
- San Bartolo Yautepec Zapotec
- Zaachila Zapotec
- Zaniza Zapotec
- Zoogocho Zapotec
Takalik Abaj and Kaminaljuyú scripts
- Mixe-Zoquean
- Proto-Maya
Mongolian and related scripts
Old Uyghur alphabet
- Uyghur (formerly)
Mongolian script
- Mongolian (also Cyrillic)
Naxi script
- Naxi (obsolete)
Old Permic alphabet
- Komi (formerly)
Runic script
- 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 High German (also Latin script)
- Old Dutch (also Latin script)
si5s
- Various sign languages
- American Sign Language (also ASL-phabet, SignWriting, and Stokoe notation)
SignWriting
- Various sign languages
Stokoe notation
- Various sign languages
- American Sign Language (also, ASL-phabet, si5s, and SignWriting)
Old Turkic script
- Old Turkic language (extinct)
Old Hungarian alphabet
- Hungarian (revived for decorative purposes only. In use: Latin script)
Tifinagh
- Berber / Tamazight (Morocco)
- Tuareg
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.