List of writing systems

Columns: Name of script | Type | Number of characters | Population actively using ( in millions ) | Languages associated with | Regions with predominant usage
Latin Latin | Alphabet | 23 ( classical ) | 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 ) , Baltic languages ( Latvian and Lithuanian ) , 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 | Devanagari देवनागरी | Abugida | 44 | 820+ | 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 | 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 , India ( 7 states ) , China ( Xinjiang ) , Brunei ( co-official with Latin ) , Malaysia , Indonesia ( religious uses only ) | Bengali-Assamese script | Abugida | 52 | 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 , Mizoram , Jharkhand , Tripura , Assam , Manipur , Meghalaya , Andaman and Nicobar Islands ) | Cyrillic Кирилица | Alphabet | 33 ( Russian ) | 250 | Bulgarian , Russian , Serbian , Ukrainian , Macedonian , Belarusian , Kazakh , 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

Example questions:
What type of writing system does the script with 44 consonant symbols belong to ? | How many characters does the writing system also known as Aksara Jawa have ? | Where is the writing system use continued that had 52 characters in it ? | What is the number of millions of people using a writing system derived from a version of script used by the Etruscans ? | What is the number of millions of people using a writing system that was created in the 15th century by King Sejong the Great ?

Answers:
Abugida | 53 | Eastern India | 6120+ | 78.7