Index of languages by writing system

This is a list of the languages featured on Omniglot arranged by the writing systems with which they are written. This is not an exhaustive list of all the languages written with each writing system. Only some writing systems have been adapted to write more than one language. The most widely used writing systems are the Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets. An index of all the languages of all the languages featured on this site is available in the language index.

Some languages have been written with a number of different writing systems over the years. For example, in Central Asia many languages were originally written with the Arabic alphabet, then switched to the Latin alphabet during the 1920s, then to the Cyrillic alphabet during the 1930s or 1940s. Some of them switched back to the Latin alphabet during the 1990s or in the early 21st century.

Writing systems

Arabic, Aramaic, Baybayin, Bengali, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Chinese, Cuneiform, Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, Ge'ez (Ethiopic), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Hebrew, Kannada, Korean (Hangeul), Lao, Latin, Lontara, Malayalam, Oriya, Syriac, Tibetan, Tifinagh

If you can't find a particular writing system or language here, please look in the A-Z index or the Language index.


العربية

Arabic alphabet

Arabic, Äynu, Azeri, Baluchi, Beja, Bosnian, Crimean Tatar, Dari, Hausa, Kabyle, Karakalpak, Konkani, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mandekan, Morisco, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Saraiki, Shabaki, Sindhi, Somali, Tatar, Tausūg, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek

Some of these languages, such as Bosnian and Turkish, were once written with the Arabic alphabet, but nowadays are normally written with a different alphabet, such as Latin or Cyrillic.


Aramaic alphabet

Aramaic alphabet

Aramaic


Ⴋხედრული

Baybayin syllabary

Ilocano, Kapampangan, Tagalog


বাংলা

Bengali alphabet (Eastern Nagari / Eastern Neo-Brahmic script)

Assamese, Bengali, Garo, Manipuri, Mundari, Sylheti

Also used to write: Bishnupriya, Bodo, Chakma, Chiru, Koda, Nisi, Deori, Dimasa, Garo, Hajong, Koch, Khasi, Kudmali, Tiwa, Sauria Paharia, Miri, Chothe Naga, Thangal Naga, Moyon Naga, Maring Naga, Rabha, Rangpuri, Santali, Sadri, Oraon Sadri, Sulung, Sylheti, Panchpargania, Tippera, Kok Borok, Toto and Usui.

Source: http://scriptsource.org/scr/Beng


ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Blackfoot, Carrier, Chipewyan, Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Ojibwe


漢字

Chinese script

Modern Standard Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese (kanji), Korean (hanja), Vietnamese (chữ-nôm)


eme-ĝir

Cuneiform scripts

Akkadian Cuneiform, Elamite Cuneiform, Hittite Cuneiform, Old Persian Cuneiform, Sumerian Cuneiform, Ugaritic Cuneiform


Кириллица

Cyrillic alphabet

Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Altay, Archi, Avar, Azeri, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Itelmen, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Khwarshi, Kildin Sámi, Komi, Koryak, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Tatar, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Votic, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yukaghir, Yupik


दवनागरी

Devanagari alphabet

Bhojpuri, Hindi, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Mundari, Nepal Bhasa / Newari, Nepali, Pali, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi


ፊደል

Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script

Amharic, Argobba, Awngi, Blin, Chaha, Dizin, Ge'ez, Harari, Inor, Silt'e, Tigre, Tigrinya, Xamtanga


Ⴋხედრული

Georgian (Mkhedruli) alphabet

Georgian, Laz, Mingrelian, Svan


Greek alphabet

Greek alphabet

Arvanitic, Greek

Today the Greek alphabet is used to write Greek and occasionally Arvanitic, however at various times in the past it has been used to write such languages as Lydian, Phrygian, Thracian, Ancient Macedonian, Gaulish, Hebrew, Arabic, Old Ossetic, Albanian, Turkish, Aromanian, Gagauz, Surguch and Urum.


Gujarati alphabet

Gujarati alphabet

Gujarati, Kutchi


עברית / עִבְרִית

Hebrew alphabet

Aramaic, Bukhori, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish


Kannada alphabet

Kannada alphabet

Kannada, Konkani


Hangeul alphabet

Korean (Hangeul) alphabet

Cia-Cia, Korean


Lao

Lao alphabet

Lao

Also used to write: Tai Dam, Lave, Eastern Bru, Western Bru, Mong Njua, Iu Mien, Jeh, Kuy, Kataang, Lü, Khmu, Western Katu, Lamet, Hmong Daw, Ngeq, Pacoh, Phunoi, Upper Ta'oih and Lower Ta'oih


Latin alphabet

Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Alabama, Albanian, Aleut, Alsatian, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anutan, Apache, Arabela, Aragonese, Aranese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azeri, Bambara, Baniwa, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bora, Breton, Burushaski, Catalan, Cayuga, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chechen, Cheyenne, Cimbrian, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Chipewyan, Choctaw, Cofán, Comanche, Cornish, Corsican, Cape Verdean Creole, Creek, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Massachusett, Dholuo, Dinka, Drehu, Duala, Dusun, Dutch, Elfdalian, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Ewondo, Eyak, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Ga, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Garo, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Guarani, Gugadja/Kukatja, Gwich’in, Haida, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hausa, Hawaiian, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hixkaryana, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Huasteco, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Inari Sámi, Indonesian, Ingrian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Iñupiaq, Irish, Italian, Iu Mien, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French), Juǀʼhoan, Kabyle, Kadazandusun, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kam, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karamojong, Karelian, Kashubian, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khoekhoe, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klallam, Klamath, Koasati, Kolam, Konkani, Koya, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kven, Kwakiutl, Lingala, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Livonian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lule Sámi, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mam, Mandekan, Manx, Māori, Mapuche, Marshallese, Massachusett, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Miami, Mikasuki, Mi'kmaq, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montagnais, Moriori, Mundari, Murrinh-Patha, Murui Huitoto, Nagamese, Nahuatl, Nama, Naskapi, Navajo, Naxi, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Nenets, Ngiyambaa, Nheengatu, Niuean, Noongar, Norn, Norwegian, North Sámi, Northern Sotho, Novial, Nuer, Nuosu (Yi), Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka), Nǀuu, Occidental, Occitan, Okinawan, O'odham, Oneida, Old Norse, OshiWambo, Ossetian, Otomi, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Pipil, Pirahã, Pite Sámi, Pitjantjatjara, Polish, Pomo (Eastern), Porja, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q'eqchi', Quechua, Raga, Rarotongan, Rotokas, Romanian, Romansh, Romany, Rotuman, Saami/Sámi, Saanich, Sakao, Salar, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Seri, Seychelles Creole, Shavante, Shawnee, Shilluk, Shona, Shoshone, Sicilian, Silesian, Sioux, Skolt Sámi, Slovak, Slovene, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian, South Sámi, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan, Swahili, Swati/Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar, Taiwanese, Tamajaq, Tamasheq, Tausūg, Ter Sámi, Tetum, Tlingit, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tsotsil, Tswana, Tuareg, Tucano, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuscarora, Tuvaluan, Tuvan, Twi, Udi, Ume Sámi, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Veps, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro, Wakhi, Walloon, Warlpiri, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yaghnobi, Yapese, Yaqui, Yindjibarndi, Yolngu, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Yurok, Záparo, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zhuang, Zulu, Zuni


Lontara alphabet

Lontara alphabet

Bugis, Makassarese, Mandar


Malayalam alphabet

Malayalam alphabet

Konkani, Malayalam


Oriya alphabet

Oriya alphabet

Mundari, Oriya


Syriac alphabet

Syriac alphabet

Aramaic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Syriac


Tibetan

Tibetan alphabet

Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Tibetan


Tifinagh

Tifinagh alphabet

Kabyle, Tamazight


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