Title: List of languages by writing system Content: This is a list of languages which uses writing system to sort. ==Arabic script== *Arabic *Azeri (Iran) *Balochi *Berber *Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script) *Fulani (on occasion) *Hausa (on occasion) *Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century) *Kanuri (on occasion) *Kashmiri *Kazakh in China *Kurdish (Iran and Iraq) *Malagasy (until the 19th century) *Malay (14th - 17th century) *Mazanderani *Mozarabic (now extinct) *Ottoman Turkish *Pashtu *Persian *Punjabi (Pakistan) *Saraiki *Sindhi *Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado) *Swahili (on occasion) *Tajik (on occasion) *Tausug *Urdu *Uyghur *Yoruba (rarely see Ajami script) Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic *Bashkir *Belarusian (on occasion) *Kazakh *Kyrgyz *Tatar *Uzbek ==Armenian script== *Armenian ==Borama script== *Somali ==Brahmic family and derivatives== ===Devanagari=== *Sanskrit *Hindi *Marathi *Maithili *Bhojpuri *Nepali *Sindhi (also written in Arabic) *Konkani *Kashmiri *Bodo *Dogri *Gondi,Adilabad *Gondi, Aheri *Andh *Angika *Asuri *Athpariya *Awadhi *Bagheli *Bagri *Bahing *Bantawa *Baram *Bateri *Belhariya *Bhadrawahi *Bharia *Bhatri ===Assamese/Bengali=== *Assamese *Bengali *Bishnupriya Manipuri *Garo *Kokborok *Meitei *Mundari *Sanskrit ===Balinese script=== *Balinese language (formerly) ===Baybayin script=== *Ilokano (formerly) *Kapampangan (formerly) *Pangasinan (formerly) *Tagalog (formerly) *Bikol language (formerly) *Visayan languages (formerly) ===Buhid script=== *Buhid ===Burmese script=== *Burmese *Karen **Geba Karen **Pa-O **Pwo Karen **S'gaw Karen *Mon *Rumai Palaung *Shan ===Gujarati script=== *Gujarati ===Gurmukhi script=== *Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script) ===Hanunó'o script=== *Hanunó'o ===Javanese script (Hanacaraka)=== *Javanese (in old literatures, and a part of cultural heritage) *Sundanese ===Kannada script=== *Kannada *Konkani *Tulu ===Khmer script=== *Khmer ===Lao script=== *Lao ===Lepcha script=== *Lepcha ===Limbu script=== *Limbu ===Lontara script (Buginese)=== *Buginese (formerly) ===Malayalam script=== *Malayalam *Konkani ===Oriya script=== *Oriya ==='Phags-pa script=== *Chinese (formerly) *Mongolian (formerly) *Sanskrit (formerly) *Tibetan (for decorative purposes) *Uyghur (formerly) ===Sinhala script=== *Sinhala ===Tagbanwa script=== *Languages of Palawan ===Tamil script=== *Tamil ===Telugu script=== *Telugu ===Thaana script=== *Dhivehi ===Thai script=== *Thai ===Tibetan script=== *Tibetan *Dzongkha *Ladakhi *Zhang-Zhung (extinct) ==Canadian Aboriginal script== *Blackfoot *Chipewyan *Cree *Dakelh *Inuktitut *Ojibwe *Sekani *Slavey *Tasttine *Tłįchǫ ==Cherokee script== *Cherokee ==Coptic alphabet== *Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically) ==Cyrillic script== * Abkhaz * Belarusian * Bosnian (also Latin script and Arebica) * Bulgarian * Bashkir * Chuvash * Dungan * Interslavic (also Latin script) * Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script) * Kazakh * Komi * Kyrgyz * Macedonian * Mongolian * Ossetic * Russian * Rusyn * Serbian (also Latin script) * Tajiki * Tatar * Tuvan * Udmurt * Ukrainian ==Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)== *Croatian (formerly) *Bosnian (formerly) ==Ge'ez script (Ethiopic)== *Amharic *Ge'ez *Tigrinya ==Georgian script== *Georgian *Laz (sometimes Latin) *Mingrelian *Svan ==Glagolitic alphabet== *Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically) *Croatian (formerly) ==Gothic alphabet== *Gothic (extinct) ==Greek script== *Bactrian (extinct) *Greek *Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts *Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script) ==Chinese characters and derivatives== *Chinese **Guanhua (Mandarin) **Wu which includes Shanghainese **Yue (Cantonese) **Min which includes Taiwanese **Xiang **Hakka **Gan **Jin from Mandarin **Huizhou from Wu **Ping partly from Cantonese * Minority languages in China **Dong **Bai (obsolete) **Miao (obsolete) **Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete) *Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative) *Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts and newspapers) *Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use virtually extinct) * Extinct languages ** Khitan, written in Khitan scripts ** Jurchen, written in Jurchen script ** Tangut, written in Tangut script ==Hangul== *Korean ==Hebrew script== *Aramaic (and other writing systems) *Bukhori *Hebrew *Hulaula *Judeo-Berber *Judeo-Iraqi Arabic *Judeo- Moroccan *Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic *Judeo-Tunisian Arabic *Judeo-Portuguese *Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems) *Judeo- Yemenite *Juhuri *Lishan Didan *Lishana Deni *Lishanid Noshan *Shuadit *Yiddish *Zarphatic ==Kaddare script== *Somali ==Kana== *Japanese (plus kanji) *Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone ==Khitan scripts== *Khitan (extinct) ==Latin script== *Afrikaans *Albanian *Aragonese *Asturian *Aymara *Azeri *Basque *Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic) *Bislama *Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin) *Bosnian ( also Cyrillic script and Arebica ) *Breton *Catalan *Cebuano *Chamorro *Cornish *Corsican *Croatian *Czech *Danish *Dutch *English *Esperanto *Estonian *Faroese *Fijian *Filipino (formerly used the Baybayin) *Finnish *French *Frisian *Friulian *Fula (Pulaar) *Gaelic (Scottish) *Galician *Ganda *German *Gikuyu *Guaraní *Haitian *Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script) *Hawai'ian *Hiti Motu *Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000) *Icelandic *Ido *Igbo *Ilocano (formerly used the Baybayin) *Indonesian *Interlingua *Innu-aimun *Irish *Italian *Javanese - Also uses an alphabet called Hanacaraka in certain areas *Judeo-Spanish - Also uses other scripts *Kinyarwanda *Kirundi *Kongo *Kurdish (Kurmanji) *Latin *Latvian *Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs) *Leonese *Lingala *Lithuanian *Lombard *Luxembourgish *Maori *Malagasy *Malay *Maltese *Manx *Marshallese *Mingrelia *Moldovan - Also Cyrillic *Montenegrin *Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest) *Nauruan *Navaho or Navajo *Ndebele *Norwegian *Occitan *Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script) *Palauan *Polish *Portuguese *Quechua *Romanian (formerly used a Cyrillic alphabet) *Romansh *Samoan *Scots *Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially) *Seychellois creole *Shona *Slovak *Slovene *Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and Osmanya script) *Sotho (Northern) *Sotho (Southern) *Spanish *Swahili *Swedish *Swati *Tagalog (formerly used the Baybayin) *Tahitian *Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet) *Tetum *Tok Pisin *Tongan *Tsonga *Tswana *Turkish (formerly used the Arabic script) *Turoyo (new Latin alphabet, originally Syriac alphabet) *Uzbek (official script, formerly used Cyrillic) *Venda *Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) *Volapük *Võro *Walloon *Welsh *Wolof *Xhosa *Yoruba *Zulu *Zazaki ==Mayan script== *Mayan languages (formerly) ==Mongolian and related scripts== ===Old Uyghur alphabet=== *Uyghur (formerly) ===Mongolian script=== *Mongolian ===Manchu script=== *Manchu *Xibe ==Munda scripts== ===Sorang Sompeng=== *Sora ===Ol Cemet'=== *Santali ===Varang Kshiti=== *Ho ==N'Ko script== *N'ko ==Naxi script== *Naxi (obsolete) ==Nsibidi== *Ekoi *Igbo *Ibibio ==Ogham== *Primitive Irish *Pictish ==Osmanya script== *Somali ==Pahawh Hmong== *Hmong ==Runic script== *Proto-Norse inscriptions *Old Norse (also Latin script) *Old Danish (also Latin script) *Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin script) *Old Frisian (also Latin script) ==Old Hungarian script== *Hungarian (also Latin script) ==Syriac script== *Arabic (see Garshuni) *Assyrian Neo-Aramaic *Bohtan Neo-Aramaic *Chaldean Neo-Aramaic *Hertevin *Koy Sanjaq Surat *Senaya *Syriac *Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script) ==Tifinagh== *Amazigh (Morocco) *Tuareg ==Yi script== *Yi