writing system
any conventional method of visually representing verbal or signed communication
Cyrillic script
writing system developed in Bulgaria and used for various oriental Eurasian languages
Japanese writing system
various writing systems used Japanese, using or mixing Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji characters, inherited or derived from Chinese ideographic characters
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
transliteration scheme
Egyptian hieratic
cursive writing system used in the provenance of the pharaohs in Egypt and Nubia
pictographic writing system
type of writing system
Kurdish alphabets
multiple alphabets of Kurdish language
Kurdish alphabets
multiple alphabets of Kurdish language
Lao
abugida script for the Lao language
Linear Elamite
writing system from Elam
Old Mon script
abugida
Wu Chinese characters
Chinese characters used in the Wu Chinese language
oracle bone script
precursor of Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese
written Chinese language using simplified set of Chinese characters, used in People's Republic of China, Singapore, Malaysia
Mahl writing systems
writing system for the Mahl variety of Maldivian language
Syriac alphabet
writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language from the 1st century AD
Balinese
indigenous script of Balinese used in Bali
Pahlavi scripts
abjad-based writing systems used for Middle Iranian languages
writing systems of Africa
writing systems used in Africa
Iberian scripts
writing systems
Cantonese Hangul
orthography system for Cantonese language
Dunging script
syllabary
Dai Don
script for the Tai languages Tai Don, might also have been used for Tai Dam in China
Braille
writing system for blind and visually impaired people based on a notational convention for the transcription of other scripts
Egyptian hieroglyphs
formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians
cursive Hebrew
handwritten style of Hebrew letters
Singapore Chinese characters
writing system for Mandarin Chinese, as used in Singapore
Kazakh alphabet
any of the alphabets used for the Kazakh language
written Cantonese
Cantonese written tradition
English orthography
Latin script-based orthography of the English language
semi-syllabary
writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary
Shan
abugida used for writing Tai Pong in China and Tai Yai in Myanmar
Ogan
writing system used by Ogan people to write the Ogan language text, native to the Ogan regions in South Sumatra (Indonesia)
Chinese characters
logographic writing system with Han origin used in the Sinosphere for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and traditional Vietnamese languages
Chinese characters
logographic writing system with Han origin used in the Sinosphere for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and traditional Vietnamese languages
Latin script
writing system used to write most Western, Northern and Central European languages
numeric writing system
writing system for numbers
Glagolitic
oldest known Slavic alphabet
Etruscan alphabet
alphabet used by the Etruscans of central Italy
ideographic writing system
type of writing system in which all characters have a unique value(s)
Old Italic
group of similar alphabets used on the Italian peninsula in ancient times
Maldivian writing systems
writing systems used in the Maldives
asemic writing
wordless open semantic form of writing
Punjabi Braille
braille alphabet used in India for Punjabi
Swahili Ajami
Arabic script for Swahili