List of writing systems
See writing system for a description of the different kinds of writing systems. The name of the language the script is used to write follows the name of the script, if different.
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Logographic writing systems
- Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic writing systems of Ancient Egypt
- Cuneiform script of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, and Luwian languages
- Hanzi (Chinese)
- Dongba (Naxi)
- Jurchen
- Khitan
- Mayan
- Tangut
Syllabaries
- Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Celtiberian
- Cherokee
- Cypriot
- Hiragana (Japanese)
- Iberian
- Katakana (Japanese)
- Kpelle
- Linear B
- Ndjuká
- Vai
- Yi
Alphabets
- Armenian
- Avestan
- Bassa
- Beitha Kukju (Albanian)
- Bopomofo
- Braille
- Coptic
- Cyrillic
- Elbasan (Albanian)
- Fraser
- Georgian
- Glagolitic (Old Church Slavonic)
- Gothic
- Greek
- Hangul (Korean)
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- Latin (Roman)
- Kharosthi, also known as Gandhari
- Manchu
- Mandaic
- Mongolian
- N'Ko (Malinke, Bambara, Dyula)
- Ogham (Celtic languages, Pictish)
- Old Hungarian
- Old Italic alphabet (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian)
- Old Permic, or Abur (Komi)
- Orkhon (Turkic runes)
- Osmanya (Somali alphabet)
- Pollard Miao (Miao)
- Runic alphabet (Germanic languages)
- Santali, or Ol' Cemet
- Tai Lue (Lue)
- Thaana (Dhivehi)
Abjads
- Dhives akuru (Dhivehi)
- Aramaic
- Arabic
- Middle Persian
- Hebrew
- Parthian (Middle Persian)
- Nabataean alphabet
- Sabaean alphabet
- Psalter (Middle Persian)
- Phoenician
- Syriac
- South Arabian (Sabaic, Qatabanic, Himyaritic and Hadhramautic)
- Samaritan
- Ugaritic
- Tifinagh (Tamasheq)
Abugidas
- Ahom
- Balinese
- Batak
- Bengali
- Brahmi
- Baybayin (Tagalog)
- Burmese (Burmese, Karen languages, Mon
- Cham
- Dehong (Dehong Dai)
- Devanāgarī (Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali)
- Ge'ez, also called Ethiopic
- Gujarāti (Gujarāti, Kachchi)
- Gurmukhi (Punjabi)
- Hanuno'o
- Pahawh Hmong (Hmong)
- Javanese
- Kannada (Kannada, Tulu)
- Kharosthi (Gandhari, Sanskrit)
- Khmer
- Lao
- Lepcha
- Limbu
- Lontara and Makasar alphabets Bugis or Bugisnese, Makasar, and Mandar
- Malayalam
- Modi (Marathi)
- Oriya
- Phags-pa (Mongolian
- Ranjana (Newari)
- Kaganga (Rejang)
- Sinhala
- Sorang Sompeng
- Sourashtra
- Soyombo
- Syloti Nagri
- Tagalog
- Tagbanwa
- Tai Dam
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tocharian
- Varang Kshiti
Undeciphered writing systems
These writing systems have not yet been completely deciphered, and in some cases are not deciphered at all.
- Indus/Harappa script
- Linear A
- Meroitic script
- Old Elamite
- Old European Script (Vinča)
- Phaistos Disc
- Proto-Elamite
- Rongorongo
Undeciphered manuscripts
A number of manuscripts from comparable recent past may be written in an invented writing system, a cipher of an existing writing system or may only be an hoax.
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