List of writing systems
List of writing scripts by adoption

List of writing systems

Section Title: List of writing scripts by adoption
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Name of script	Type	Number of characters	Population actively using (in millions)	Languages associated with	Regions with predominant usage

Latin Latin	Alphabet	23 (classical)	over 6120	Latin and Romance languages (Italian, French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Rhaeto-Romance languages, Sardinian and Romanian), Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages), Chinese (Mandarin Pinyin), Austronesian languages (Indonesian, Filipino, Malay, Polynesian languages), West and Southwest Slavic languages (including Polish), Niger-Congo languages (including Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu), Turkish, Somali, Albanian, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Maltese, Finnic (including Estonian and Finnish) and Sami languages, others	Worldwide

Chinese 汉字 漢字	Logographic	>50,000	1340	Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Gan, Min, Hakka, Xiang, Jin, Pinghua, Huizhou and other Chinese languages (Chinese characters), Japanese (Kanji), Korean (Hanja), Vietnamese (Chu Nom), Zhuang (Sawndip), Okinawan (Okinawan), Mulam	China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia (Chinese Malaysians), Japan, South Korea, Indonesia (Chinese Indonesians), Hong Kong

Arabic العربية	Abjad	28	660+	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Balochi, Malayan (Jawi), Acehnese (Jawi), Uyghur, Kazakh (in China), Kurdish, Azeri (in Iran), Javanese (Pegon), Sundanese (Pegon), others	Middle East and North Africa, Pakistan, China (Xinjiang), India (a few states), Brunei (co-official with Latin), Malaysia, Indonesia (religious uses only)

Devanagari देवनागरी	Abugida	44	600+	Angika, Awadhi, Bhili, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri, Haryanvi, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Magahi, Maithili, Marathi, Mundari, Nepali, Newar, Pali, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, others	India (native in Hindi Belt, Goa, Maharashtra), Nepal

Bengali-Assamese বাংলা	Abugida	28	300	Sanskrit, Bengali, Assamese, Kokborok, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Khasi, Meitei Manipuri, Hajong, Chakma, Maithili (historical use), Angika (historical use), Sylheti and others.	Bangladesh, and India (West Bengal, Bihar, Mizoram, Jharkhand, Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)

Cyrillic Кириллица	Alphabet	33	250	Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Belarusian, others	Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Mongolia, the Russian Far East

Kana かな カナ	Syllabary	46	120	Japanese, Okinawan, Ainu, Palauan, other Japonic languages	Japan

Javanese ꦗꦮ	Abugida	53	80	Javanese, Cirebonese, Madurese, Sundanese	Indonesia (Central Java, East Java, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Cirebon, Cirebon Regency, Indramayu Regency), Javanese diaspora

Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul 한글 조선글	Alphabet, featural	24	78.7	Korean, Cia-Cia, Jeju	North Korea, South Korea, and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China, Indonesia (Baubau)

Telugu తెలుగు	Abugida	60	74	Telugu, Sanskrit, Gondi	Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry (India)

Tamil தமிழ்	Abugida	246	70	Tamil, Kanikkaran, Badaga, Irula, Paniya, Sanskrit, Saurashtra	Tamil Nadu (India), Puducherry (India), Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius

Gujarati ગુજરાતી	Abugida	47	48	Gujarati, Kutchi, Avestan, Bhili, Bhilori, Gamit, Chowdhary, Kukna, Bhili, Varli, Vasavi	India, Pakistan

Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ	Abugida	51 (or 50 or 49)	45	Kannada, Tulu, Kodava, Badaga, Beary, Sanketi, Konkani, Sanskrit	Karnataka (India)

Burmese မြန်မာ	Abugida	26	39	Burmese, Pali, Sanskrit	Myanmar

Malayalam മലയാളം	Abugida	26	38	Malayalam, Sanskrit, Paniya, Betta Kurumba, Ravula	Kerala, Puducherry (India)

Thai ไทย	Abugida	68	38	Thai, Northern Thai, Southern Thai, Northern Khmer, and Isan, Kelantan-Pattani Malay, Pali, Sanskrit, others	Thailand

Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ	Abugida	44	38	Sundanese, Bantenese, Baduy	West Java and Banten (Indonesia)

Gurmukhi ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ	Abugida	35	22	Sanskrit, Punjabi, Sant Bhasha, Sindhi	Punjab (India)

Odia ଉତ୍କଳ	Abugida	64	21	Odia, others	Odisha (India)

Ge'ez ግዕዝ	Abugida	30	18	Ethiopian Semitic languages, Blin, Meʻen, Oromo, Anuak	Ethiopia, Eritrea

Sinhala සිංහල	Abugida	58	14.4	Sinhala, Vedda	Sri Lanka

Hebrew עברית	Abjad	22	14	Hebrew, Yiddish, other Jewish languages	Israel

Greek Ελληνικό	Alphabet	24	13.4	Greek, others	Greece, Cyprus, Southern Albania; worldwide for mathematical and scientific purposes

Armenian Հայոց	Alphabet	39	12	Armenian, Lomavren	Armenia

Khmer ខ្មែរ	Abugida	35	11.4	Khmer, Pali, others	Cambodia

Batak ᯅᯖᯂ᯲	Abugida	20 (Toba Batak)	8.5	Batak languages	North Sumatra (Indonesia)

Lontara ᨒᨚᨈᨑ	Abugida	23	7.6	Buginese, Makassar, Mandar	Indonesia (South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi)

Balinese ᬩᬮᬶ	Abugida	18 (basic)	6	Balinese and Sasak (modified)	Indonesia (Bali and Lombok, East Nusa Tenggara)

Tibetan བོད་	Abugida	30	5	Tibetan, Dzongkha, Ladakhi, Sikkimese, Balti, Tamang, Sherpa, Yolmo, Tshangla	Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan, and India (Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh)

Georgian ქართული	Alphabet	33	4.5	Georgian and other Kartvelian languages	Georgia

Modern Yi ꆈꌠ	Syllabary	1165	4	Nuosu Yi, other Yi languages	Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of China

Lao ລາວ	Abugida	26	2	Lao, Isan, others Laos

Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ	Alphabet	26	2	Mongolian, Manchu (Manchu), Evenki (experimentally)	China (Inner Mongolia)

Tifinagh ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ	Abjad	33	1	Berber languages	North Africa

Tai Le ᥖᥭᥰᥘᥫᥴ	Abugida	35	0.72	Tai Nüa	Yunnan (China)

New Tai Lue ᦑᦟᦹᧉ	Abugida	83	0.55	Tai Lü	Yunnan (China)

Syriac ܣܘܪܝܬ	Abjad	22	0.4	Syriac, Aramaic, Neo-Aramaic, Suriyani Malayalam, nothers	West Asia

Thaana ދިވެހި	Abugida	24	0.35	Maldivian	Maldives

Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ	Abugida	14 (each of the 14 consonants has 6 modes depending on the vowel)	0.035	Inuktitut, other Inuit languages	Canada (North of Tree Line)

Cherokee ᏣᎳᎩ	Syllabary	86	0.02	Cherokee	United States

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The Devanagari script is one of the most adopted writing systems.

final_sentence: The Devanagari script is one of the most adopted writing systems.