List of languages by writing system

## Arabic Script 
*Arabic script
*Azeri (Iran)
*Balochi
*Berber
*Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script)
*Buginese (until the 20th century)
*Fulani (on occasion)
*Hausa (on occasion)
*Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
*Javanese (on occasion)
*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
*Pashto
*Persian
*Punjabi (Pakistan)
*Saraiki
*Sindhi
*Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
*Sundanese (until the 20th century)
*Swahili (on occasion)
*Tajik (on occasion)
*Tausug
*Urdu
*Uyghur
*Wolio (until the 20th century)
*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 (on occassion)
*Sasak (on occassion)

### 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 (second writing system)
*Sundanese (formerly)
*Madurese (second writing system)
*Tenggerese (second writing system)
*Cirebonese (second writing system)

### Kannada script
*Kannada
*Konkani
*Tulu

### Khmer script
*Khmer

### Lao script
*Lao

### Lepcha script
*Lepcha

### Limbu script
*Limbu

### Lontara script (Buginese)
*Buginese (formerly)
*Makassarese (formerly)
*Mandar (formerly)
*Sumbawan (formerly)
*Bimanese (formerly)
*Endenese (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

## Constructed Script family in the USCR and Omniglot
### Aiha script
*Kesh

### Argpal
*Silarg

### Cirth
*Dwarfish
*English (formerly)
*Sindarin (formerly)

### Ewellic
*English (formerly)

### Klingon
*Klingon (also Latin script)

### Tengwar
*Sindarin

### Tolianem
*Dizalla
*Ferisnosh
*Razchijian

## 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)

## Saba (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

## Jurchen script
*Jurchen (extinct)

## Kaddare script
*Somali

## Kana
*Japanese (plus kanji)
*Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone
*Okinawan Mostly for Hiragana and some for Katakana

## 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
*Hiri 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 Chiki
*Santali

### Warang Citi
*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)

## Orkhon script
*Göktürk

## Syriac script
*Arabic (*see* Garshuni)
*Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
*Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
*Hertevin
*Koy Sanjaq Surat
*Senaya
*Syriac
*Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script)

## Tifinagh
*Amazigh (Morocco)
*Tuareg

## Yi script
*Yi

## References