List of languages by writing system
Below is a list of languages sorted by writing system.
[Adlam alphabet]
- Fulfulde/Pular
[Afaka syllabary]
- Ndyuka
[Anatolian alphabets]
- Anatolian languages
[Arabic script]
- Acehnese
- Adyghe
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- *Algerian
- *Egyptian
- *Lebanese
- *Moroccan
- *Iraqi
- *Tunisian
- Afar
- Azerbaijani
- Arwi
- Bakhtiari
- Balochi
- Balti
- Banjar
- Bashkir
- Belarusian
- Bengali language
- Berber
- Bhadrawahi
- Bosnian
- Brahui
- Burushaski
- Central Kurdish
- Cham
- Chechen
- Chinese in the Arabic-derived Xiao'erjing alphabet
- Comorian
- Crimean Tatar
- Dari
- Dungan
- Dogri
- 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
- Gilaki
- Greek
- Harari
- Hausa
- Ingush
- Javanese
- Jola-Fonyi
- Judeo-Arabic languages
- *Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judaeo-Spanish
- Kanuri
- Karakalpak
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh in China
- Khowar
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
- Lak
- Lezgin
- Luri
- Madurese
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Mandinka
- Marwari
- Mazanderani
- Minangkabau
- Mozarabic
- Nobiin
- Ngai
- Ottoman Turkish
- Pashtu
- Persian
- Punjabi
- Qashqai
- Rohingya
- Salar
- Saraiki
- Sindhi
- Somali
- Songhay
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Tajik
- Talysh
- Tatar
- Tausug
- Tuareg
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Wakhi
- Wolio
- Wolof known as Wolofal
- Yoruba in the 17th century with the Ajami script
- Zarma
[Aramaic alphabet]
- Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
- Hertevin
- Koy Sanjaq Surat
- Senaya
- Syriac
- Turoyo
- Mongolian
[Armenian script]
- Armenian
- Western Armenian
- Classical Armenian
- Middle Armenian
[ASL-phabet]
- Various sign languages
- *American Sign Language
[Borama script]
- Somali
[Brahmic family] and derivatives
[Bengali–Assamese script]
- Assamese alphabet:
- *Assamese
- Bengali alphabet
- *Bengali
- *Sylheti
- *Bishnupriya Manipuri
- *Meitei Manipuri
- *Khasi
- *Hajong
- *Kokborok
- *Bodo
- *Karbi
- *Mising
- Mithilakshara/Tirhuta
- *Maithili
- *Anga Lipi
- **Angika
[Balinese script]
- Balinese language
Baybayin script">Baybayin">Baybayin script
- Ilokano
- Pangasinan
- Tagalog
- Bikol language
- Visayan languages
[Buhid script]
- Buhid
Chakma">Chakma alphabet">Chakma
- Chakma
[Devanagari]
- Hindi
- Sanskrit
- Marathi
- Bhojpuri
- Magadhi
- Maithili
- Nepali
- Sindhi
- Konkani
- Kashmiri
- Bodo
- Dogri
- Santali
- Chhattisgarhi
- Nepal Bhasa
[Gujarati script]
- Gujarati
[Gurmukhi script]
- Punjabi
[Hanunó'o script]
- Hanunó'o
[Javanese script] (Hanacaraka)
- Javanese
[Kaithi script]
- Awadhi
- Bhojpuri
- Magahi
- Maithili
[Kannada script]
- Kannada
- Konkani
- Tulu
- Kodava
- Badaga
- Beary bashe
- Sankethi
[Khmer script]
- Khmer
[Khojki]
- Sindhi
Khudawadi">Khudabadi script">Khudawadi
- Sindhi
[Kulitan alphabet]
- Kapampangan
[Lao script]
- Lao
[Leke script]
- Eastern Pwo
[Lepcha script]
- Lepcha
[Limbu script]
- Limbu
[Lontara script]
- Makassarese
- Buginese
- Mandar
[Malayalam script]
- Malayalam
Meitei Mayek">Meitei Mayek alphabet">Meitei Mayek
- Meitei Manipuri
Tirhuta/Mithilakshar">Tirhuta">Tirhuta/Mithilakshar
- Maithili
Modi">Modi alphabet">Modi
- Marathi
Myanmar script">Burmese script">Myanmar script
- Burmese
- Karen
- *Geba Karen
- *Pa-O
- *Pwo Karen
- *S'gaw Karen
- Mon
- Rumai Palaung
- Shan
[Odia script]
- Odia
['Phags-pa script]
- Chinese
- Mongolian
- Sanskrit
- Tibetan
- Uyghur
Ranjana">Ranjana alphabet">Ranjana
- Nepal Bhasa
Saurashtra">Saurashtra alphabet">Saurashtra
- Saurashtra
[Sinhala script]
- Sinhala
- Elu
- Vedda
- Arab
[Sundanese script]
- Sundanese
Syloti Nagri script">Syloti Nagri">Syloti Nagri script
- Sylheti
[Tagbanwa script]
- Palawan languages
[Tamil script]
- Tamil
- Badaga
- Irula
- Kanikkaran
- Paniya
- Saurashtra
[Telugu script]
- Telugu
[Thaana script]
- Dhivehi
- Malé Latin
- Bali
[Thai script]
- Thai
[Tibetan script]
- Tibetan
- Dzongkha
- Ladakhi
- Zhang-Zhung
Canadian Aboriginal script">Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian Aboriginal script
- Blackfoot
- Chipewyan
- Cree
- Dakelh
- Dane-zaa
- Inuktitut
- Ojibwe
- Sekani
- Slavey
- Tłįchǫ
Albanian alphabet">Caucasian [Albanian language">Albanian alphabet]
- Udi
Cherokee script">Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee script
- Cherokee
[Coptic alphabet]
- Coptic language
[Cyrillic script]
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Judaeo-Spanish
- Kazakh
- Kyrgyz
- Macedonian
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Russian
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
- Persian
Cyrillic alphabet">Bosnian [Cyrillic script">Cyrillic alphabet] (bosančica)
- Croatian
- Bosnian
[Ge'ez script] (Eritrean and Ethiopic)
- Amharic
- Ge'ez
- Tigrinya
- Tigre
- Harari
- Blin
- Me'en
- Oromo
[Georgian script]
- Georgian
- Laz
- Mingrelian
- Svan
[Glagolitic alphabet]
- Old Church Slavonic
- Croatian
[Gothic alphabet]
- Gothic
[Greek script]
- Greek
- Coptic Egyptian
- Bactrian
- Gaulish – Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
- Judaeo-Spanish
- Karamanli Turkish
[Chinese characters] and derivatives
- Chinese
- *Guanhua
- *Yue
- *Wu which includes Shanghainese
- *Min which includes Taiwanese
- *Xiang
- *Hakka
- *Gan
- *Jin from Mandarin
- *Huizhou from Wu
- *Ping
- Minority languages in China
- *Dong
- *Bai
- *Miao
- *Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms
- Japanese
- Korean
- Vietnamese
- Extinct languages
- * Khitan, written in large and small Khitan scripts
- * Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
- * Tangut, written in Tangut script
[Hangul]
- Korean
- Cia-Cia
- Jeju
[Hebrew script]
- Aramaic
- Bukhori
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
- Judeo-Moroccan
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Judeo-Spanish
- Judeo-Yemenite
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Iranian
- Shuadit
- Yiddish
- Zarphatic
Italic script">Old [Italic languages">Italic script]
- Italic
[Kaddare script]
- Somali
[Kana]
- Japanese
- Ryukyuan
- Ainu slightly modified variety of katakana, which enable the ability to represent final consonants
[Khitan large script]
- Khitan
[Khitan small script]
- Khitan
[Latin script]
- Acehnese
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Aymara
- Azeri
- Banjar
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Betawi
- Berber / Tamazight
- Bislama
- Boholano
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chamorro
- Cherokee
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Cree
- Czech
- Danish
- Dayak
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Finnish
- French
- Fula
- Gaelic
- Galician
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Hiri Motu
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Ilocano
- Indonesian
- Interlingua
- Innu-aimun
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese
- Judeo-Spanish
- Kabylian Berber
- Khasi
- Kazakh
- Kinyarwanda
- Klingon language
- Kirundi
- Kongo
- Konkani
- Kurdish
- Latin
- Latvian
- Laz
- Leonese
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Luganda
- Luxembourgish
- Maori
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Maltese
- Manx
- Marshallese
- Mauritian Creole
- Minangkabau
- Moldovan
- Montenegrin
- Nahuatl
- Nauruan
- Navaho or Navajo
- Nias
- Ndebele
- Ndebele
- North Frisian
- Norwegian
- Occitan
- Oromo
- Palauan
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Rohingya
- Romanian
- Romansh
- Samoan
- Sasak
- Saterland Frisian
- Scots
- Serbian
- Seychellois creole
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali
- Sotho
- Sotho
- Spanish
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Swati
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Tatar
- Tetum
- Tok Pisin
- Tongan
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tunisian Arabic
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Turoyo
- Uzbek
- Venda
- Vietnamese
- Vastese
- Volapük
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- West Frisian
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zazaki
- Zulu
[Meetei Mayek]
- Meetei language
Mesoamerican scripts">Mesoamerican writing systems">Mesoamerican scripts
[Epi-Olmec script]
- Olmec
[Maya script]
- Achi
- Akatek
- Awakatek
- Chicomuceltec
- Chontal
- Ch'ol
- Ch'olti'
- Ch'orti'
- Chuj
- Huastec
- Itza'
- Ixil
- Jakaltek
- Kaqchikel
- Kaqchikel–K'iche'
- K'iche'
- Lacandon
- Mam
- Mocho'
- Mopan
- Poqomam
- Poqomchi'
- Q'anjob'al
- Q'eqchi'
- Sakapultek
- Sipakapense
- Tektitek
- Tojolab'al
- Tzeltal
- Tzotzil
- Tz'utujil
- Yucatec
Mixtec script">Mixtec writing">Mixtec script
- Trique
- Cuicatec
- Mixtec
Nahuat hieroglyphs">Aztec writing">Nahuat hieroglyphs
- Nahuatl
[Olmec script]
- Olmec
Zapotec script">Zapotec writing">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">Mesoamerican writing systems">Takalik Abaj and Kaminaljuyú scripts
- Mixe-Zoquean
- Proto-Maya
Mongolian and related scripts
Uyghur alphabet">Old [Uyghur language">Uyghur alphabet]
- Uyghur
[Mongolian script]
- Mongolian
[Manchu script]
- Manchu
- Xibe
Munda">Munda languages">Munda scripts
[Sorang Sompeng]
- Sora
Ol Cemet'">Santali alphabet">Ol Cemet'
- Santali
[Warang Citi]
- Ho
[N'Ko script]
- N'ko
[Naxi script]
- Naxi
[Nsibidi]
- Ekoi
- Igbo
- Ibibio
[Ogham]
- Primitive Irish
- Pictish
- Old Welsh
- British Latin
[Osmanya script]
- Somali
[Pahawh Hmong]
- Hmong
[Old Permic alphabet]
- Komi
Runic script">Runic">Runic script
- Proto-Norse inscriptions
- Old Norse
- Old Danish
- Old English/Anglo-Saxon
- Old Frisian
- Old High German
- Old Dutch
[si5s]
- Various sign languages
- *American Sign Language
[SignWriting]
- Various sign languages
- *American Sign Language
- *British Sign Language
- *Nicaraguan Sign Language
[Stokoe notation]
- Various sign languages
- *American Sign Language
[Old Turkic script]
- Old Turkic language
[Old Hungarian alphabet]
- Hungarian
[Tifinagh]
- Berber / Tamazight
- Tuareg
[Yi script]
- Nuosu