User:Treetoes023/List of writing systems


 * Aztec script


 * Anishinaabewibii'iganan


 * Dongba symbols


 * Ersu Shaba script


 * Kaidā glyphs


 * Nsibidi


 * Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing


 * Testerian


 * Egyptian hieroglyphs


 * Hieratic


 * Demotic script


 * Anatolian hieroglyphs


 * Cuneiform


 * Chinese characters


 * Bagam script


 * Maya script


 * Sui script


 * Classical Yi script


 * Afaka syllabary


 * Yugtun script


 * Bété syllabary


 * Cherokee syllabary


 * Cypriot syllabary


 * Geba syllabary


 * Dunging script


 * Hiragana


 * Katakana


 * Mende Kikakui script


 * Kpelle syllabary


 * Linear B


 * Lisu Bamboo script


 * Loma


 * Masaba


 * Nüshu


 * Nwagu Aneke script


 * Vai syllabary


 * Woleai script


 * Modern Yi script


 * Bamum script


 * Bopomofo


 * Eskayan script


 * Khom script


 * Linear Elamite


 * Espanca script


 * Southwest Paleohispanic script


 * Southeastern Iberian script


 * Northeastern Iberian script


 * Celtiberian script


 * Old Persian cuneiform


 * Quốc Âm Tân Tự


 * Ancient North Arabian


 * Ancient South Arabian script


 * Aramaic alphabet


 * Arabic script


 * Hebrew alphabet


 * Manichaean script


 * Nabataean script


 * Inscriptional Parthian


 * Inscriptional Pahlavi


 * Psalter Pahlavi


 * Phoenician


 * Proto-Sinaitic script


 * Sogdian


 * Samaritan script


 * Syriac


 * Tifinagh


 * Armenian


 * Ariyaka script


 * Avestan


 * Avoiuli


 * Gadabuursi alphabet


 * Carian


 * Caucasian Albanian script


 * Coorgi–Cox alphabet


 * Coptic script


 * Cyrillic


 * Deseret alphabet


 * Eclectic shorthand


 * Elbasan alphabet


 * Fraser script


 * Gabelsberger shorthand


 * Garay


 * Georgian


 * Gjirokastër


 * Glagolitic script


 * Gothic


 * Greek


 * Hanifi


 * International Phonetic Alphabet


 * Kaddare alphabet


 * Latin script


 * Lycian – Lycian
 * Lydian – Lydian
 * Manchu – Manchu
 * Mandaic – Mandaic dialect of Aramaic
 * Medefaidrin – also called Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ; used for the religious language of the same name
 * Mongolian – Mongolian
 * Mundari Bani – Mundari
 * Mru – Mru
 * Neo-Tifinagh – Tamazight
 * Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong – Hmong
 * N'Ko – Maninka language, Bambara, Dyula language
 * Oduduwa script – Yoruba
 * Ogham – Gaelic, Britannic, Pictish
 * Ol Chiki Ol Cemet' or Ol Chemet' –  Santali
 * Old Hungarian (in Hungarian magyar rovásírás or székely-magyar rovásírás) – Hungarian
 * Old Italic – a family of connected alphabets for the Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Messapian, South Picene, Raetic, Venetic, Lepontic, Camunic languages
 * Old Permic (also called Abur) – Komi
 * Old Turkic – Old Turkic
 * Old Uyghur – Old Uyghur
 * Ol Onal – Bhumij Language
 * Osmanya – Somali
 * Pau Cin Hau script – Zomi and other Northern Kuki-Chin languages
 * Runes – Germanic languages
 * Sayaboury (also called Eebee Hmong or Ntawv Puaj Txwm) – Hmong Daw
 * Sorang Sompeng – Sora
 * Tai Lue – Lue
 * Tangsa – Tangsa language
 * Todhri – Albanian
 * Tolong Siki – Kurukh
 * Toto – Toto
 * Unifon – proposed for English, never adopted
 * Vah – Bassa
 * Vellara – Albanian
 * Vithkuqi Beitha Kukju –  Albanian
 * Wancho – Wancho
 * Yezidi – Kurmanji
 * Zaghawa – Zaghawa
 * Zoulai – Zou (also has alphasyllabic characteristics)
 * ASL-phabet
 * Ditema tsa Dinoko IsiBheqe SoHlamvu for Southern Bantu languages
 * Duployan Shorthand
 * Gregg Shorthand
 * Hangul – Korean
 * Osage – Osage
 * Shavian alphabet – proposed for English, never adopted
 * SignWriting and its descendants si5s and ASLwrite for sign languages
 * Stokoe notation for American Sign Language, and its descendant, the Hamburg Notation System or HamNoSys
 * Tengwar (a fictional script)
 * Visible Speech (a phonetic script)
 * Hangul – Korean
 * Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics – Fox, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe
 * IsiBheqe SoHlamvu – Southern Bantu languages
 * ʼPhags-pa script – Mongolian, Chinese, Persian, Sanskrit
 * Braille (Unified) – an embossed alphabet for the visually impaired, used with some extra letters to transcribe the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, as well as Chinese
 * Braille (Korean)
 * Braille (American) (defunct)
 * New York Point – a defunct alternative to Braille
 * International maritime signal flags (both alphabetic and ideographic)
 * Morse code (International) – a trinary code of dashes, dots, and silence, whether transmitted by electricity, light, or sound) representing characters in the Latin alphabet.
 * American Morse code (defunct)
 * Optical telegraphy (defunct)
 * Flag semaphore – (made by moving hand-held flags)
 * Ahom
 * Balinese
 * Batak – Toba and other Batak languages
 * Baybayin – Formerly used for Ilokano, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Bikol languages, Visayan languages, and possibly other Philippine languages
 * Bengali and Assamese — Bengali, Assamese, Meithei, Bishnupriya Manipuri
 * Bhaiksuki
 * Brahmi – Sanskrit, Prakrit
 * Buda – Old Sundanese and Old Javanese
 * Buhid
 * Burmese – Burmese, Karen languages, Mon, and Shan
 * Cham
 * Chakma
 * Devanagari – Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali, and many other languages of northern India
 * Dhives Akuru
 * Grantha – Sanskrit
 * Gujarati – Gujarati, Kutchi, Vasavi, Sanskrit, Avestan
 * Gurmukhi script – Punjabi
 * Hanuno’o
 * Javanese
 * Kaithi
 * Kannada – Kannada, Tulu, Konkani, Kodava
 * Kawi
 * Khema script – Gurung
 * Khojki
 * Khotanese
 * Khudabadi
 * Khmer
 * Kulitan alphabet
 * Lai Tay – Tai Yo
 * Lampung
 * Lao
 * Leke – Eastern Pwo, Western Pwo, and Karen
 * Lepcha
 * Limbu
 * Lontara’ – Buginese, Makassar, and Mandar
 * Mahajani
 * Makasar – Formerly used for Makassar
 * Malayalam
 * Marchen – Zhang-Zhung
 * Meitei Mayek – Meitei
 * Modi – Marathi
 * Multani – Saraiki
 * Nandinagari – Sanskrit
 * Naoriya Phulo script – Meitei
 * New Tai Lue
 * Odia
 * Phags-pa – Mongolian, Chinese, and other languages of the Yuan dynasty Mongol Empire
 * Pracalit script Newa –  Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit, Pali
 * Pyu – Pyu
 * Ranjana – Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit
 * Rejang
 * Rencong
 * Saurashtra
 * Sharada – Sanskrit, Kashmiri
 * Siddham – Sanskrit
 * Sinhala
 * Sirmauri
 * Soyombo
 * Sundanese
 * Sylheti Nagri – Bengali, Dobhashi, Sylheti
 * Tagbanwa – Languages of Palawan
 * Tai Le Dehong Dai –  Tai Nuea
 * Tai Tham – Khün, and Northern Thai
 * Tai Viet
 * Takri
 * Tamil
 * Telugu
 * Thai
 * Tibetan
 * Tigalari – Sanskrit, Tulu
 * Tirhuta – used to write Maithili
 * Tocharian
 * Vatteluttu
 * Zanabazar Square
 * Zhang zhung scripts
 * Canadian Aboriginal syllabics – Cree syllabics (for Cree), Inuktitut syllabics (for Inuktitut), Ojibwe syllabics (for Ojibwe), and various systems for other languages of Canada.  Derived scripts with identical operating principles but divergent character repertoires include Carrier and Blackfoot syllabics.
 * Dham – Dhimal
 * Ge'ez – Amharic, Ge’ez, Tigrigna
 * Kharoṣṭhī – Gandhari, Sanskrit
 * Kurukh Banna – Kurukh
 * Lontara Bilang-bilang script – Buginese
 * Mandombe
 * Meroitic – Meroë
 * Mwangwego – Chewa and other Bantu languages of Malawi
 * Pitman Shorthand
 * Pollard script – Miao
 * Sapalo script – Oromo
 * Rma script – Qiang
 * Sunuwar Jenticha
 * Thaana – Dhivehi
 * Tikamuli – Sunuwar
 * Thomas Natural Shorthand
 * Róng
 * Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
 * Japanese Braille – Japanese
 * Pahawh Hmong – Hmong
 * Byblos syllabary – the city of Byblos
 * Cretan hieroglyphs
 * Indus – Indus Valley civilization
 * Isthmian (apparently logosyllabic)
 * Linear A (a syllabary) – Minoan
 * Lukasa – Kingdom of Luba (a memory device)
 * Mixtec – Mixtec (perhaps pictographic)
 * Olmec – Olmec civilization (possibly the oldest Mesoamerican script)
 * Para-Lydian script – Unknown language of Asia Minor; script appears related to the Lydian alphabet.
 * Phaistos Disc (a unique text, very possibly not writing)
 * Proto-Elamite – Elam (nearly as old as Sumerian)
 * Proto-Sinaitic (likely an abjad)
 * Quipu – Inca Empire (possibly numerical only)
 * Rongorongo – Rapa Nui (perhaps a syllabary)
 * Sidetic – Sidetic
 * Trojan script – (possibly related to Linear B)
 * Zapotec
 * International Phonetic Alphabet
 * Americanist phonetic notation
 * Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
 * Braille
 * Moon type
 * New York Point
 * Night writing