Writing systems:
abjads |
alphabets |
syllabic alphabets |
syllabaries |
semanto-phonetic scripts
undeciphered scripts |
alternative scripts |
your con-scripts |
A-Z index |
Direction index
Writing systems:
abjads |
alphabets |
syllabic alphabets |
syllabaries |
semanto-phonetic scripts
undeciphered scripts |
alternative scripts |
your con-scripts |
A-Z index |
Direction index
This section contains links to the Excel spreadsheets I use to create most of the script charts on this site, and also to script charts in Word and PDF format suitable for downloading and printing.
Old Italic
Includes: Ancient Latin, Etruscan, Faliscan, Messapic, Oscan,
South Picene, Umbrian
Runic (Futhark)
Includes: Elder Futhark, Danish Futhark, Gothic runes, Hungarian Runes,
Medieval (Latinised) Futhark, Norwegian Futhark and Short-Twig/Rök Runes
Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Syrian Arabic
Arabic - Turkic languages
Includes: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Arabic - other languages
Includes: Bosnian, Ganda, Kashmiri, Malay, Mozarabic, Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki, Urdu
Iranian languages
Includes: Baluchi, Dari, Kurdish, Pahlavi, Pastho, Persian, Shabaki, Tajik, Wakhi, Zazaki
Kabyle (Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh alphabets)
Hebrew
Includes: Hebrew, Bukhori, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, Samaritan
and Karmeli
Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Coptic, Ogham, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Church Slavonic, Cyrillic
Cyrillic - Slavic languages
Includes: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian,
Serbian, Rusyn and Ukrainian
Cyrillic - Romance languages
Includes: Moldovan, Romanian
Cyrillic - Mongolic languages
Includes: Buryat, Kalmyk, Mongolian
Cyrillic - Altaic languages
Includes: Altay, Balker, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Even,
Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nanai, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan,
Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut
Cyrillic - Finno-Ugric languages
Includes: Erzya, Khanty, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Nenets, Sami (Kildin),
Udmurt and Votic
Cyrillic - other languages
Includes: Chukchi, Dungan, Komi, Koryak, Nivkh,
Ossetian, Tajik, Yukaghir and Yupik
Caucasian languages (mainly Cyrillic)
Includes: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Archi, Dargwa,
Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Laz, Lezgian, Mingrelian, Svan, Tabassaran and Tsez
Latin - Celtic languages
Includes: Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic
Latin - Germanic languages
Includes: Afrikaans, Cimbrian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese,
German, Icelandic, Old Norse, Norwegian and Swedish
Latin - Italic/Romance languages
Includes: Aranese, Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, French, Galician,
Genoese, Italian, Jèrrais, Latin, Lombard, Mirandese, Moldovan, Napolitan, Occitan, Piedmontese,
Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish and Walloon
Latin - Slavic languages
Includes: Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Kashubian, Polish, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene,
Upper and Lower Sorbian
Latin - Finno-Ugric languages
Includes: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Livonian,
Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Sami (Southern), Võro and Votic
Latin - other languages of Europe
Includes: Albanian, Basque, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese and Romany
Latin - Turkic
Includes: Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kumyk,
Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek
Latin - languages of Africa
Includes: Afar, Akan, Bambara, Bemba, Chichewa, Duala, Ewe, Ewondo, Ga,
Gbe, Hausa, Herero, Igbo, Kanuri, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Lingala, Luganda, Makhuwa, Nama,
Northern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nǀuu, Oromo, OshiWambo, Sango, Shona, Somali,
Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tshiluba, Twi, Wolof,
Xhosa, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu
Latin - Nilo-Saharan languages
Includes: Dholuo, Dinka, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk
Latin - indigenous languages of North America
Includes: Abenaki, Alabama, Aleut, Apache, Arapaho, Cayuga, Cheyenne, Chickasaw,
Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Crow, Dakota, Delaware, Eastern Pomo, Greenlandic, Gwich’in, Haida,
Hän, Hopi, Klallam, Klamath, Kwakiutl, Lakota, Mikmaq, Mohawk, Montagnais,
Naskapi, Navajo, Oneida, O'odham, Potawatomi, Saanich, Shawnee, Tlingit, Tuscarora, Yupik
Latin - indigenous languages of Central America
Includes: Nahuatl, Seri, Zapotec
Mayan languages
Includes: Q'eqchi', Tsotsil
Latin - indigenous languages of South America
Includes: Aymara, Cofán, Guaraní, Hixkaryána, Kaingang, Pirahã,
Quechua, Shavante, Wayuu
Latin - languages of Asia and Oceania
Includes: Ainu, Bikol, Burushaski, Cebuano, Chamorro, Drehu, Fijian, Filipino,
Hawaiian, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kiribati, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Marshallese, Miriam Mir,
Moriori, Niuean, Rotokas, Rotuman, Sakao, Samoan, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tetum, Tokelauan, Tongan,
Tujia, Tuvaluan, Vietnamese, Waray-Waray, Yapese, Zhuang
Latin - Formosan languages
Includes: Amis, Atayal
Latin - Aboriginal languages of Australia
Includes: Arrernte, Gooniyandi, Gugadja/Kukatja, Kala Lagaw Ya, Murrinh-Patha, Ngiyambaa,
Noongar, Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Yindjibarndi and Yolngu
Latin - Creoles
Includes: Bislama, Cape Verdean Creole, Chavacano, Guadeloupean Creole,
Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Papiamento, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Tok Pisin
Latin - International Auxiliary languages and constructed languages
Includes: Esperanto, Folkspraak, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua,
Interlingue/Occidental, Latino sine Flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban,
Novial, Slovio, Toki Pona and Volapük
Alternative versions of the Latin alphabet
Includes: Anglo-Saxon, Fraktur, Irish Uncial and Sütterlin
Other varieties of Chinese
Includes: Gan, Hakka, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew, Xiang
Japanese (Japanese hiragana, katakana, romanji, Ainu and Okinawan)
Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit)
Ariyaka, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Brahmi, Balinese, Bugis, Burmese, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Kayah Li, Kharosthi, Khmer, Javanese, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Malayalam, Manchu, Manipuri, Modi, Mongolian, Oriya, Pali, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Shan, Sharda, Sinhala, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Sundanese, Sylheti, Tamil Telugu, Thai, Tibetan
Other South East Asian scripts
Includes: Buhid, Cham, Fraser, Hanuno'o, Hmong, Pollard Miao, Rejang, Siamese, Tai Dam
Ge'ez / Ethiopic (Amharic, Blin, Ge'ez and Tigrinya)
Berber (Ancient Berber and Neo-Tifinagh)
Syllabaries
Includes: Baybayin (Tagalog/Ilocano), Blackfoot, Carrier,
Cherokee, Chipewyan, Cree, Inuktitut, Kpelle, Mende, Objibwe and Tigrinya
Syriac
Includes: Estrangelo, Serto, Nestorian
Mandekan
Includes: Arabic, Latin and N'Ko alphabets for Mandekan / Mandinka
Other scripts
Includes: Aramaic/Proto-Hebrew, Avestan, Etruscan, Mandaic, Phoenician,
Sabaean, Thaana, Ugaritic
Phonetic transcription systems
Includes: Dialectal Paleotype, Visible Speech
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Tactile writing systems
Includes: Braille, Braille for Chinese, Moon
Alternative writing systems
Includes: Blissymbolics, Deseret, Graffiti, Quikscript,
Shavian, Unifon
Fictional writing systems
Includes: Ancients Alphabet, Atlantean, Aurek-Besh,
Daedric, Delason, D'Ni, Futurama, Gnommish, Klingon, Kryptonian, Matoran, Tenctonese,
Utopian, Visitor
Magical alphabets
Includes: Alphabet of the Magi, Angelic, Daggers, Enochian,
Malachim, Passing the River and Theban
Tolkien's scripts
Includes: Cirth, Sarati, Tengwar
Scripts of Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne
Includes: Sunúz, Tsolyáni, Yán Koryáni
Your con-scripts
Includes: Aliaric, Ancients, Arabish, Betamaze, Daikan, Delason, Deini,
Dingwiri, Ewellic, Falandril, Flos, High Ƕarian, Irxti, Kanadana, Liron, Lovecraftian, Morda, Nari, Oxidilogi,
Peperklips, Phonogic, Riasu, Shandanese, Sobatha, SpaceKees, Suritanyo, Tciaar, Wedges,
21e
Adaptations of existing alphabets Coptic Arabic, Porturillic, Renglish (Latin), Renglish (Cyrillic), Romanabic
My con-scripts
Includes: Geyinzi, Kanadana and Tengwar for Welsh
Tower of Babel texts
Includes: Kannada, Malayalam, Persian/Farsi
A list of the fonts used on this site
Copyright 1998- Simon Ager
