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.

Table of contents

1 Logographic writing systems 2 Syllabaries 3 Alphabets 3.1 Abjads 3.2 Abugidas 4 Undeciphered writing systems 5 Source

Logographic writing systems

• Hieroglypics of Ancient Egypt
• Hanzi (Chinese)
• Dongba (Naxi)
• Vietnamese (Nom, obsolete)
• Jurchen
• Kanji (Japanese)
• Khitan
• Linear B
• Mayan
• Tangut

Syllabaries

• Carrier (Dakelh)
• Celtiberian
• Cherokee
• Cree
• Cypriot
• Ge'ez, also called Ethiopic
• Hiragana (Japanese)
• Iberian
• Inuktitut
• Katakana (Japanese)
• Kpelle
• Ndjuká
• Ojibwe
• Vai
• Yi

Alphabets

• Armenian
• Avestan
• Bassa
• Beitha Kukju (Albanian)
• Coptic
• Cyrillic
• Elbasan (Albanian)
• Etruscan
• Fraser
• Asomtavruli (Georgian)
• Glagolitic (Old Church Slavonic)
• Gothic
• Greek
• Hungarian Runes
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• Manchu
• Mkhedrul (Georgian)
• Mongolian
• Latin/Roman
• N'Ko (Malinke, Bambara, Dyula)
• Nuskha-khucuri (Georgian)
• Old Church Slavonic
• Ogham (Celtic languages, Pictish)
• Old Italic alphabets (Latin)
• Old Permic, or Abur (Komi)
• Orkhon (Turkic runes)
• Pollard Miao (Miao)
• Runic alphabet (Germanic languages)
• Santali, or Ol' Cemet
• Somali alphabet
• Tai Lue (Lue)
• Thaana (Dhivehi)

Abjads

• Dhives akuru (Dhivehi)
• Aramaic
• Arabic
• Middle Persian
• Hebrew
• Parthian (Middle Persian)
• Nabataean alphabet
• Sabaean alphabet
• Psalter (Middle Persian)
• Phoenecian
• Syriac
• South Arabian (Sabaic, Qatabanic, Himyaritic and Hadhramautic)
• Samaritan
• Ugaritic
• Tifinagh (Tamasheq)

Abugidas

• Ahom
• Balinese
• Batak
• Bengali
• Brahmi
• Buhid (Tagalog)
• Burmese (Burmese, Karen languages, Mon
• Cham
• Dehong (Dehong Dai)
• Devanāgarī (Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali)
• Gujarāti (Gujarāti, Kachchi)
• Gurmukhi (Punjabi)
• Hanuno'o
• Pahawh Hmong (Hmong)
• Javanese
• Kannada (Kannada, Tulu)
• Kharosthi alphabet (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.

• Codex Seraphinianus
• Etruscan
• Proto-Elamite
• Indus/Harappa script
• Old Elamite
• Linear A
• Phaistos Disk
• Meroïtic
• Voynich Manuscript
• Rongo Rongo
• Vinča (Old European)

Source

Omniglot - a guide to writing systems