List of writing systems

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thumb|upright=1.8|Writing systems currently in use around the world; The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the [[languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying annotations for the script may also be provided.]]

Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.

Proto-writing and ideographic systems

Ideographic scripts (in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas rather than a specific word in a language) and pictographic scripts (in which the graphemes are iconic pictures) are not thought to be able to express all that can be communicated by language, as argued by the linguists John DeFrancis and J. Marshall Unger. Essentially, they postulate that no true writing system can be completely pictographic or ideographic; it must be able to refer directly to a language in order to have the full expressive capacity of a language. Unger disputes claims made on behalf of Blissymbols in his 2004 book Ideogram.

Although a few pictographic or ideographic scripts exist today, there is no single way to read them because there is no one-to-one correspondence between symbol and language. Hieroglyphs were commonly thought to be ideographic before they were translated, and to this day, Chinese is often erroneously said to be ideographic. In some cases of ideographic scripts, only the author of a text can read it with any certainty, and it may be said that they are interpreted rather than read. Such scripts often work best as mnemonic aids for oral texts or as outlines that will be fleshed out in speech.

{| class="wikitable"

|+Ideographic systems for language

!Name

!Language(s)

!Notes

|Adinkra

Akan

|Birch-bark glyphs

|Anishinaabemowin

|Dongba

|Naxi

|Often supplemented with syllabic Geba script.

|Ersu Shaba script

|Ersu

|Kaidā glyphs

|Lusona

|Lukasa

|Luba

|Nsibidi

|Ekoi, Efik, Igbo

|Siglas poveiras

|Testerian

|Used for missionary work in Mexico.

There are also symbol systems used to represent things other than language:

{| class="wikitable"

|+Ideographic systems for things other than language

!Name

!Notes

|Emojis

|Used as expressive icons in modern media

|Blissymbols

|A constructed ideographic script used primarily in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

|iConji

|A constructed ideographic script used primarily in social networking

|Isotype

|LoCoS

|A wide variety of notation systems

Logographic systems

In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements.

No logographic script is composed solely of logograms; all contain graphemes that represent phonetic (sound-based) elements as well. These phonetic elements may be used on their own (to represent, for example, grammatical inflections or foreign words), or may serve as phonetic complements to a logogram (used to specify the sound of a logogram that might otherwise represent more than one word). In the case of Chinese, the phonetic element is built into the logogram itself; in Egyptian and Mayan, many glyphs are purely phonetic, whereas others function as either logograms or phonetic elements, depending on context. For this reason, many such scripts may be more properly referred to as logosyllabic or complex scripts; the terminology used is largely a product of custom in the field, and is to an extent arbitrary.

Consonant-based logographies

Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic – the writing systems of Ancient Egypt
Egyptian language

Syllable-based logographies

Anatolian hieroglyphs – Luwian.
Cuneiform – Sumerian, Akkadian, other Semitic languages, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, and Urartian.
Aegean scripts – Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A (Minoan language) and Linear B (Mycenaean Greek).
Chinese characters – Chinese, Japanese (called Kanji), Korean (called Hanja), Vietnamese (called Chữ Hán, obsolete).
Sawndip – Zhuang
Chữ Nôm – Vietnamese
Khitan large script – Khitan
Khitan small script – Khitan
Jurchen script – Jurchen
Tangut script – Tangut
Sui script – Sui language
Yi (classical) – various Yi/Lolo languages
Pau Cin Hau logographic script – Tedim
Eghap (or Bagam) script – Məgaka
Mi'kmaw hieroglyphs – originally a pictorial system, transformed into a logographic system by French priest Father Le Clerq.
Maya script – Ch'olan, Yucatecan and Tzeltalan, especially Epigraphic Ch'olti'.
Mixteca-Puebla script – Nahuan languages, especially Classical Nahuatl (Aztec script), Mixtecan languages (Mixtec script), others.

Syllabaries

In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. (The 19th-century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather than true syllabaries.)

Afaka Ndyuka
Alaska or Yugtun script Central Yup'ik
Bété
Cherokee Cherokee
Cypro-Minoan – Cypro-Minoan (probably ancestral to Eteocypriot).
Cypriot Arcadocypriot Greek, Eteocypriot
Geba Naxi
Iban or Dunging script Iban
Kana Japanese (although primarily based on moras rather than syllables).
Hiragana
Katakana
Man'yōgana
Kikakui – Mende
Kpelle Kpelle
Lisu Bamboo script
Loma Loma
Masaba – Bambara
NüshuChinese
Nwagu Aneke scriptIgbo
VaiVai
WoleaianWoleaian (a likely syllabary)
Yi (modern) various Yi/Lolo languages

Semi-syllabaries

In most of these systems, some consonant-vowel combinations are written as syllables, but others are written as consonant plus vowel. In the case of Old Persian, all vowels were written regardless, so it was effectively a true alphabet despite its syllabic component. In Japanese a similar system plays a minor role in foreign borrowings; for example, [tu] is written [to]+[u], and [ti] as [te]+[i]. Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries behaved as a syllabary for the stop consonants and as an alphabet for the rest of consonants and vowels.

The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as a redundant semi-syllabary, others treat it as a redundant alphabet. Other scripts, such as Bopomofo, are semi-syllabic in a different sense: they transcribe half syllables. That is, they have letters for syllable onsets and rimes (kan = "k-an") rather than for consonants and vowels (kan = "k-a-n").

Consonant-vowel semi-syllabaries

Bamum scriptBamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the gaps)
Eskayan Bohol, Philippines (a syllabary apparently based on an alphabet; some alphabetic characteristics remain)
Linear Elamite Elamite language
Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries Paleo-Hispanic languages
Celtiberian script Celtiberian language
Northeastern Iberian script Iberian language
Southeastern Iberian script Iberian language
Southwest Paleohispanic script Tartessian
Old Persian cuneiform Old Persian

Onset-rime semi-syllabaries

Bopomofophonetic script for different varieties of Chinese.
Khom script Bahnaric languages, including Alak and Jru'.
Quốc Âm Tân Tự Vietnamese

Segmental systems

A segmental script has graphemes which represent the phonemes (basic unit of sound) of a language.

Note that there need not be (and rarely is) a one-to-one correspondence between the graphemes of the script and the phonemes of a language. A phoneme may be represented only by some combination or string of graphemes, the same phoneme may be represented by more than one distinct grapheme, the same grapheme may stand for more than one phoneme, or some combination of all of the above.

Segmental scripts may be further divided according to the types of phonemes they typically record:

Abjads

An abjad is a segmental script containing symbols for consonants only, or where vowels are optionally written with diacritics ("pointing") or only written word-initially.

Ancient North Arabian Dadanitic, Dumaitic, Hasaitic, Hismaic, Safaitic, Taymanitic, and Thamudic
Ancient South Arabian Old South Arabian languages including Himyaritic, Hadhramautic, Minaean, Sabaean and Qatabanic; also the Ethiopic language Geʽez.
Libyco-Berber –Berber languages
Aramaic, including Khwarezmian ( Chorasmian), Elymaic, Palmyrene, and Hatran
Arabic Arabic, Paleo-Arabic, Azeri, Bengali (historical occasion), Chittagonian (historical occasion), Punjabi, Baluchi, Kashmiri, Pashto, Persian, Kurdish (vowels obligatory), Sindhi, Uighur (vowels obligatory), Urdu, Malay (as Jawi) and many other languages spoken in Africa and Western, Central, and Southeast Asia,
Hebrew Hebrew and other Jewish languages
Manichaean script
Nabataean the Nabataeans of Petra
Pahlavi script Middle Persian
Parthian
Psalter
Phoenician Phoenician and other Canaanite languages
Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaitic – Bronze Age Canaanites.
Sogdian –Sogdian language
Samaritan (Old Hebrew) Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew
Syriac Classical Syriac, Sureth, Turoyo and other Neo-Aramaic dialects
Tifinagh Tuareg
Ugaritic Ugaritic, Hurrian

True alphabets

A true alphabet contains separate letters (not diacritic marks) for both consonants and vowels.

Linear nonfeatural alphabets

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Linear alphabets are composed of lines on a surface, such as ink on paper.

A·chik Tokbirim Garo
Adlam Fula
Alifuru Bahasa tanah languages
Armenian Armenian
Ariyaka script Pali, Isan, Lao
Avestan Avestan
Avoiuli Raga
Borama Somali
CarianCarian
Caucasian Albanian Caucasian Albanian
Coorgi–Cox alphabet Kodava
Coptic Egyptian
Cyrillic Eastern South Slavic languages (Bulgarian and Macedonian), the Western South Slavic Serbian, Eastern Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian), the other languages of Russia, Kazakh language, Kyrgyz language, Tajik language, Mongolian language. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are changing to the Latin alphabet but still have considerable use of Cyrillic. See Languages using Cyrillic.
Deseret alphabet – proposed for English but never adopted
Eclectic shorthand English
Elbasan Albanian
Fraser Lisu
Gabelsberger shorthand German
Garay Wolof and Mandinka
Georgian Georgian and other Kartvelian languages
Gjirokastër (also called Veso Bey) Albanian
Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic
Gothic Gothic
Greek Greek, historically a variety of other languages
Hanifi Rohingya
Hurûf-ı munfasıla proposed for Ottoman Turkish but never widely adopted
International Phonetic Alphabet
Kaddare Somali
Latin Roman originally Latin language; most current western and central European languages, Turkic languages, sub-Saharan African languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, languages of maritime Southeast Asia and languages of Oceania use developments of it. Languages using a non-Latin writing system are generally also equipped with Romanization for transliteration or secondary use.
Lycian Lycian
Lydian Lydian
Manchu Manchu
Mandaic Mandaic dialect of Aramaic
Medefaidrin also called Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ; used for the religious language of the same name
Mongolian Mongolian
Mundari Bani Mundari
Mru script Mru
Neo-Tifinagh Tamazight
Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Hmong
N'Ko Maninka language, Bambara, Dyula language
Oduduwa script Yoruba
Ogham Gaelic, Britannic, Pictish
Ol Chiki Ol Cemet' or Ol Chemet' Santali
Old Hungarian (in Hungarian magyar rovásírás or székely-magyar rovásírás) Hungarian
Old Italic a family of connected alphabets for the Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Messapian, South Picene, Raetic, Venetic, Lepontic, Camunic languages
Old Permic (also called Abur) Komi
Old Turkic Old Turkic
Old Uyghur Old Uyghur
Ol Onal Bhumij Language
Osmanya Somali
Pau Cin Hau alphabetic script Paite and other Northeastern Kuki-Chin languages
Runes Germanic languages
Sayaboury (also called Eebee Hmong or Ntawv Puaj Txwm) Hmong Daw
Sorang Sompeng Sora
Tai Lue Lue
Tangsa Tangsa language
Todhri Albanian
Tolong Siki, Kurukh Banna Kurukh
Toto Toto
Unifon – proposed for English, never adopted
Vah Bassa
Vellara Albanian
Vithkuqi Beitha Kukju Albanian
Wancho Wancho
Yezidi Kurmanji
Zaghawa Zaghawa
Zoulai Zou (also has alphasyllabic characteristics)

Featural linear alphabets

A featural script has elements that indicate the components of articulation, such as bilabial consonants, fricatives, or back vowels. Scripts differ in how many features they indicate.

ASL-phabet
Ditema tsa Dinoko IsiBheqe SoHlamvu for Southern Bantu languages
Duployan Shorthand
Gregg Shorthand
Hangul Korean
Osage Osage
Shavian alphabet – proposed for English, never adopted
SignWriting and its descendants si5s and ASLwrite for sign languages
Stokoe notation for American Sign Language, and its descendant, the Hamburg Notation System or HamNoSys
Tengwar (a fictional script)
Visible Speech (a phonetic script)

Linear alphabets arranged into syllabic blocks

HangulKorean
Great Lakes Algonquian syllabicsFox, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe
IsiBheqe SoHlamvuSouthern Bantu languages
ʼPhags-pa scriptMongolian, Chinese, Persian, Sanskrit

Manual alphabets

Manual alphabets are frequently found as parts of sign languages. They are not used for writing per se, but for spelling out words while signing.

American manual alphabet (used with slight modification in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand)
British manual alphabet (used in some of the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Australia and New Zealand)
Catalan manual alphabet
Chilean manual alphabet
Chinese manual alphabet
Dutch manual alphabet
Ethiopian manual alphabet (an abugida)
French manual alphabet
Greek manual alphabet
Icelandic manual alphabet (also used in Denmark)
Indian manual alphabet (a true alphabet?; used in Devanagari and Gujarati areas)
International manual alphabet (used in Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland)
Iranian manual alphabet (an abjad; also used in Egypt)
Israeli manual alphabet (an abjad)
Italian manual alphabet
Korean manual alphabet
Latin American manual alphabets
Polish manual alphabet
Portuguese manual alphabet
Romanian manual alphabet
Russian manual alphabet (also used in Bulgaria and ex-Soviet states)
Spanish manual alphabet (Madrid)
Swedish manual alphabet
Yugoslav manual alphabet

Other non-linear alphabets

These are other alphabets composed of something other than lines on a surface.

Braille (Unified) an embossed alphabet for the visually impaired, used with some extra letters to transcribe the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, as well as Chinese
Braille (Korean)
Braille (American) (defunct)
New York Point a defunct alternative to Braille
International maritime signal flags (both alphabetic and ideographic)
Morse code (International) a trinary code of dashes, dots, and silence, whether transmitted by electricity, light, or sound) representing characters in the Latin alphabet.
American Morse code (defunct)
Optical telegraphy (defunct)
Flag semaphore (made by moving hand-held flags)

Abugidas

An abugida, or alphasyllabary, is a segmental script in which vowel sounds are denoted by diacritical marks or other systematic modification of the consonants. Generally, however, if a single letter is understood to have an inherent unwritten vowel, and only vowels other than this are written, then the system is classified as an abugida regardless of whether the vowels look like diacritics or full letters. The vast majority of abugidas are found from India to Southeast Asia and belong historically to the Brāhmī family, however the term is derived from the first characters of the abugida in Ge'ez: አ (a) ቡ (bu) ጊ (gi) ዳ (da) — (compare with alphabet). Unlike abjads, the diacritical marks and systemic modifications of the consonants are not optional.

Brahmi family

thumb|A [[Palaung language|Palaung manuscript written in a Brahmic abugida]]

Ahom
Balinese
Batak Toba and other Batak languages
Baybayin Formerly used for Ilokano, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Bikol languages, Visayan languages, and possibly other Philippine languages
Bengali — Bengali, Assamese, Meithei, Bishnupriya Manipuri
Bhaiksuki
Brahmi Sanskrit, Prakrit
Buda Old Sundanese and Old Javanese
Buhid
Burmese Burmese, Karen languages, Mon, and Shan
Cham
Chakma
Devanagari Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali, and many other languages of northern India
Dhives Akuru
Grantha Sanskrit
Gujarati Gujarati, Kutchi, Vasavi, Sanskrit, Avestan
Gurmukhi script Punjabi
GoykanadiFormerly used for Konkani
Hanuno’o
Javanese
Kaithi
Kannada Kannada, Tulu, Konkani, Kodava
Kawi
Khema scriptKhojki| Gurung
Khojki
Khudabadi
Khmer
Kirat Rai Khambu Rai Bantawa
Kulitan alphabet
Lai Tay Tai Yo
Lampung
Lao
Leke Eastern Pwo, Western Pwo, and Karen
Lepcha
Limbu
Lontara’ Buginese, Makassar, and Mandar
Mahajani
Makasar Formerly used for Makassar
Malayalam
Marchen – Zhang-Zhung
Meitei Mayek – Meitei
Modi Marathi
Multani – Saraiki
Nandinagari – Sanskrit
Naoriya Phulo script – Meitei
New Tai Lue
Odia
Ogan – South Barisan Malay (Ogan dialect)
Pracalit script Newa Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit, Pali
Pyu Pyu
Ranjana Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit
Rejang
Rencong
Saurashtra
Sharada Sanskrit, Kashmiri
Siddham Sanskrit
Sinhala
Sirmauri
Soyombo
Sundanese
Sylheti Nagri – Sylheti
Tagbanwa Languages of Palawan
Tai Le Dehong Dai Tai Nuea
Tai Tham Khün, and Northern Thai
Tai Viet
Takri
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigalari Sanskrit, Tulu
Tirhuta used to write Maithili
Tocharian
Vatteluttu
Zanabazar Square
Zhang zhung scripts

Other abugidas

Canadian Aboriginal syllabics Cree syllabics (for Cree), Inuktitut syllabics (for Inuktitut), Ojibwe syllabics (for Ojibwe), and various systems for other languages of Canada. Derived scripts with identical operating principles but divergent character repertoires include Carrier and Blackfoot syllabics.
Dham Dhimal
Ge'ez Amharic, Ge’ez, Tigrigna
Kharoṣṭhī Gandhari, Sanskrit
Kurukh Banna Kurukh
Lontara Bilang-bilang script Buginese
Mandombe
Masaram GondiGondi
Meroitic script Meroitic
Mwangwego Chewa and other Bantu languages of Malawi
Pitman Shorthand
Pollard script Miao
Sapalo script Oromo
Rma script Qiang
Sunuwar Jenticha
Thaana Dhivehi
Tikamuli Sunuwar
Thomas Natural Shorthand

Final consonant-diacritic abugidas

In at least one abugida, not only the vowel but any syllable-final consonant is written with a diacritic. That is, if representing [o] with an under-ring, and final [k] with an over-cross, [sok] would be written as .

Róng Lepcha

Vowel-based abugidas

In a few abugidas, the vowels are basic, and the consonants secondary. If no consonant is written in Pahawh Hmong, it is understood to be /k/; consonants are written after the vowel they precede in speech. In Japanese Braille, the vowels but not the consonants have independent status, and it is the vowels which are modified when the consonant is y or w.

Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand
Japanese Braille Japanese
Pahawh Hmong Hmong

List of writing systems by adoption

The following list contains writing systems that are in active use by a population of at least 50,000.

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"

! Name of script

! Type

! Population actively using (in millions)

! Languages associated with

! Regions using script de facto

| Latin Latin

| Alphabet

| 5500

| Latin and Romance languages (languages that evolved from Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian) Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages) Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic) Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian) Some Slavic languages (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian) Albanian Uralic languages (Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian) Malayo-Polynesian languages (Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, etc.) Maltese Turkic languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Turkmen) Some Cushitic languages (Somali, Afar, Oromo) Bantu languages (for example: Swahili) Vietnamese (an Austroasiatic language) others

| Worldwide

| Chinese 汉字 漢字

| Logographic

|1467

| Sinitic languages (Mandarin, Min, Wu, Yue, Jin, Gan, Hakka and others) Japanese (Kanji) Korean (Hanja) Vietnamese (Chữ Nôm obsolete) Zhuang (Sawndip)

| Eastern Asia, Singapore

| Arabic العربية

| Abjad or Abugida (when diacritics are used)

|1022

| Japan

| Telugu తెలుగు

| Abugida

|83

| Telugu

| India

| Hangul 한글 조선글

| Alphabet, featural

|79

| Korean, Cia-Cia (an Austronesian language)

| North Korea and South Korea, Indonesia

| Tamil தமிழ்

| Abugida

| 78.6

| Tamil

| India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia

| Thai ไทย

| Abugida

| 70

| Thai

| Thailand

|Javanese

ꦲꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮ

|Abugida

|68

|Javanese, Madurese

|Indonesia

| Gujarati ગુજરાતી

| Abugida

| 57.1

| Gujarati

| India

| Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ

| Abugida

| 45

| Kannada (a Dravidian language)

| India

| Geʽez ግዕዝ

| Abugida

| 41.85

| Amharic, Tigrinya

| Ethiopia, Eritrea

| Burmese မြန်မာ

| Abugida

| 39

| Burmese (a Lolo-Burmese language)

| Myanmar

| Malayalam മലയാളം

| Abugida

| 38

| Malayalam

| India

|Baybayin

ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔

|Abugida

|unknown

|Filipino

|Philippines

|Adlam

𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥

|Alphabet

|37

|Fula

|Guinea

| Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ

| Abugida

| 35

| Odia

| India

|Tirhuta

𑒞𑒱𑒵𑒯𑒳𑒞

|Abugida

| 35

|Maithili

|Nepal

| Gurmukhi ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ

| Abugida

| 33.125

| Punjabi

| India

|Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ

|Abugida

|32

|Sundanese

|Indonesia

|Sylheti Nagri ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ

|Abugida

| 20

|Sylheti

|Bangladesh

| Sinhala සිංහල

| Abugida

| 16

| Sinhalese

| Sri Lanka

| Khmer ខ្មែរ

| Abugida

| 16

| Khmer

| Cambodia

| Greek Ελληνικά

| Alphabet

| 13.5

| Greek

| Greece, Cyprus

|Coptic

ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ

|Alphabet

|unknown

|Coptic

|Egypt

|Yi

ꆈꌠꁱꂷ

|Syllabary

| 9.3

|Nuosu

|China

| Hebrew עברית

| Abjad, Abugida (when diacritics are used) or Alphabet (when used for Yiddish)

|9.3

| Hebrew, Yiddish

| Israel

|N'Ko

ߒߞߏ

|Alphabet

| 9.1

|N'Ko and other Manding languages

|Guinea

| Ol Chiki ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ

| Alphabet

| 7.3

| Santali

| India

|Batak

ᯘᯮᯒᯖ᯲ ᯅᯖᯂ᯲

|Abugida

| 7

|Batak

|Indonesia

|Tai Viet

ꪼꪕꪒꪮꪙꫀ

|Abugida

| 7

|Tai Dam, Tai Don

|Vietnam, Laos and China

| Lao ລາວ

| Abugida

| 7

| Lao (a Tai language)

| Laos

|Tai Tham

ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ

|Abugida

| 7

|Northern Thai

|Thailand

| Tibetan བོད་

| Abugida

| 6.241

| Dzongkha, Tibetan and Sikkimese

| China, Bhutan, India

| Armenian Հայոց

| Alphabet

| 5.4

| Armenian

| Armenia

|Tifinagh

ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ

|Abjad

| 5.3

|Berber languages

|North Africa

| Mongolian

| Alphabet

| 5.2

| Mongolian

| Mongolia, China

|Syriac

ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

|Abjad

| 4.8

|Syriac

|Syria

|Lontara

ᨒᨚᨈᨑ

|Abugida

| 4.0

|Buginese

|Indonesia

| Georgian ქართული

| Alphabet

| 3.7

| Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, Svan

| Georgia

|Balinese

ᬅᬓ᭄ᬱᬭᬩᬮᬶ

|Abugida

| 3.3

|Balinese

|Indonesia

|Hanifi Rohingya 𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝

|Abjad

| 3.2

|Rohingya

|Bangladesh, Myanmar

|Gunjala Gondi

𑵶𑶓𑶕𑶂𑶋 𑵵𑶋𑶅𑶋

|Abugida

| 2.98

|Gondi

|India

|Masaram Gondi

𑴎𑴽𑵀𑴘𑴳 𑴧𑴲𑴠𑴲

|Abugida

| 2.9

|Gondi

|India

|Meitei

| Abugida

| 2