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Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries and Others

Scripts currently in use

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There are 130 scripts. Click on the column headings to sort the list.
Name Script Family Name Script Family Name Script Family
Afaka American Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) East Asian Pau Cin Hau Logographs Southeast Asian
Ahom Indic Javanese Insular Southeast Asian Rejang (Redjang, Kaganga) Insular Southeast Asian
Akkha Indic Jenticha Indic Salifou Hausa African
Arabic Middle Eastern Kaithi Indic Samaritan Middle Eastern
Armenian European Kannada Indic Saurashtra Indic
Bagam (Eghap) African Katakana East Asian Savara Indic
Balinese Insular Southeast Asian Kayah Li Southeast Asian Sharada, Śāradā Indic
Balti Indic Khmer Southeast Asian SignFont Notation Signed Language
Bamum African Khojki Indic SignWriting Signed Language
Bassa Vah African Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri) European Sinhala Indic
Batak Insular Southeast Asian Kirat Rai Indic Sora Sompeng Indic
Bengali Indic Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) East Asian Soyombo Indic
Beria African Kpelle African Stokoe Notation Signed Language
Bété African Lahnda (Landa) Indic Sundanese Insular Southeast Asian
Bopomofo East Asian Lao Southeast Asian Syloti Nagri Indic
Braille Artificial Latin European Syriac Middle Eastern
Buginese Insular Southeast Asian Latin (Fraktur variant) European Syriac (Eastern variant) Middle Eastern
Buhid Insular Southeast Asian Leke (Chicken-Scratch) Southeast Asian Syriac (Western variant) Middle Eastern
Chakma Indic Lepcha (Róng) Central Asian Tafi (Hausa) African
Cham Southeast Asian Limbu Indic Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata) Insular Southeast Asian
Cherokee American Lisu (Fraser) East Asian Tagbanwa Insular Southeast Asian
Coptic European Loma African Tai Le Southeast Asian
Cyrillic European Malayalam Indic Tai Tham (Lanna) Southeast Asian
Devanagari (Nagari) Indic Masaba African Tai Viet Southeast Asian
Duota Southeast Asian Mathematical notation Artificial Tamil Indic
Eshkol-Wachman movement notation system Signed Language Meetei Mayek (Meithei, Meitei) Indic Tani Indic
Ethiopic (Geʻez) African Mende African Telugu Indic
Fula Ba African Miao (Pollard) East Asian Thaana Indic
Fula Dita African Modi Indic Thai Southeast Asian
Georgian (Mkhedruli) European Mongolian Central Asian Tibetan Central Asian
Gondi Indic Moon (Moon code, Moon script, Moon type) Artificial Tifinagh (Berber) African
Grantha Indic Mro, Mru Indic Tikamuli Indic
Greek European Multani Indic Tirhuta Indic
Gujarati Indic Mwangwego African Tulu Indic
Gurmukhi Indic Myanmar (Burmese) Southeast Asian Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics American
HamNoSys Notation Signed Language Nakhi Geba ('Na-'Khi ²Ggŏ-¹baw, Naxi Geba) Central Asian Vai African
Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) East Asian New Tai Lue Southeast Asian Warang Citi (Varang Kshiti) Indic
Han (Simplified variant) East Asian Newar (Prachalit Nepal) Indic Wolof African
Han (Traditional variant) East Asian N’Ko African Yezidi Middle Eastern
Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) East Asian Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet’, Ol, Santali) Indic Yi East Asian
Hanunoo (Hanunóo) Insular Southeast Asian Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic) European Zhuang Square East Asian
Hebrew Middle Eastern Oriya Indic Zou Southeast Asian
Hiragana East Asian Pahawh Hmong East Asian    
Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) East Asian Pau Cin Hau Alphabet Southeast Asian    

Historical and fictional scripts

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There are 87 scripts. Click on the column headings to sort the list.
Name Status Name Status Name Status
Alpine Scripts Historical Iberian Historical Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) Historical
Anatolian Hieroglyphs Historical Imperial Aramaic Historical Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian) Historical
Avestan Historical Indus (Harappan) Historical Old Permic Historical
Aztec Pictograms Historical Inscriptional Pahlavi Historical Old Persian Historical
Bhaiksuki Historical Inscriptional Parthian Historical Old South Arabian Historical
Blissymbols Historical Jurchen Historical Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic Historical
Book Pahlavi Historical Kawi (Old Javanese) Historical Old Uighur Historical
Brahmi Historical Kharoshthi Historical Osmanya Historical
Büthakukye Historical Khotanese Historical Palmyrene Historical
Byblos Historical Khudawadi, Sindhi Historical Phags-pa Historical
Carian Historical Kitan Large Historical Phoenician Historical
Caucasian Albanian Historical Kitan Small Historical Proto-Elamite Historical
Chalukya (Box-Headed) Historical Latin (Gaelic variant) Historical Psalter Pahlavi Historical
Chola Historical Linear A Historical Pyu Historical
Cirth Fictional Linear B Historical Rongorongo Historical
Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian Historical Lycian Historical Runic Historical
Cypriot Historical Lydian Historical Sarati Fictional
Cypro-Minoan Historical Mahajani Historical Satavahana Historical
Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant) Historical Mandaic, Mandaean Historical Shavian (Shaw) Historical
Deseret (Mormon) Historical Manichaean Historical Siddham Historical
Egyptian demotic Historical Marchen Historical Sogdian Historical
Egyptian hieratic Historical Mayan hieroglyphs Historical Syriac (Estrangelo variant) Historical
Egyptian hieroglyphs Historical Meroitic Cursive Historical Takri, Ṭākrī, Ṭāṅkrī Historical
Elbasan Historical Meroitic Hieroglyphs Historical Tangut Historical
Elymaic Historical Micmac Hieroglyphs (Kauder ideograms) Historical Tengwar Fictional
Gangga Malayu Historical Mongolian Square Historical Turkestani Historical
Glagolitic Historical Nabataean Historical Ugaritic Historical
Gothic Historical Numidian Historical Visible Speech Historical
Hatran Historical Ogham Historical Woleai Historical

Scripts whose status is unclear

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