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, but mainly the ones that appear on Omniglot.

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 used to write more than one language

Writing system (mainly) used to write one language

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

Arabic script

Arabic, Äynu, Azeri, Baluchi, Beja, Bosnian, Brahui, Crimean Tatar, Dari, Gilaki, Hausa, Kabyle, Karakalpak, Konkani, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khowar, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Malay, Marwari, Mandekan, Mazandarani | Morisco, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Salar, 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.

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Baybayin syllabary

Iloko, Kapampangan, Tagalog

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

Bengali, Garo, Manipuri, Mundari, Sylheti

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

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

Buhid script

Buhid, Tagalog

Burmese script

Burmese, Karen, Mon

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Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

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

Chinese script

Chinese (hanzi), Cantonese (honji), Japanese (kanji), Korean (hanja), Vietnamese (chữ-nôm)

Cuneiform scripts

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

Cyrillic alphabet

Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Altay, Andi, 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, Juhuri, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Khwarshi, Kildin Sámi, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Orok, Ossetian, Russian, Ruthenian, Rutul, Serbian, Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Tatar, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Votic, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yukaghir, Yupik

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Devanagari script

Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kurukh, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Mundari, Nepal Bhasa / Newari, Nepali, Pali, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Sindhi, Sunuwar, Sylheti

Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script

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

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Georgian alphabet

Georgian, Laz, Mingrelian, Svan

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, Phrygia, Thracian, Ancient Macedonian, Gaulish, Hebrew, Arabic, Old Ossetic, Albanian, Turkish, Aromanian, Gagauz, Surguch and Urum.

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Gujarati script

Gujarati, Kutchi

Also used to write Sanskrit and Hindi .

Gurmukhi script

Punjabi

Also used to write such languages as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli (and other Hindustani dialects), Sanskrit and Sindhi.

Hebrew script

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

Kaithi script

Bhojpuri, Maghadi, Urdu, Awadhi, Maithili, Bengali

Kannada script

Kannada, Kodava, Konkani, Tulu

Kharosthi script

Gandhari and Sanskrit

Khojki script

Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu, Arabic, Persian and other languages

Korean (Hangeul) script

Cia-Cia, Korean

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Lao script

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

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