These writing and spelling systems are alternative ways of writing English and other languages. Most are designed to make it easier to learn how to write English.
These are alternative scripts or spelling systems for existing languages.
 Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet |
 Deseret |
Dialectal Paleotype |
 Interbet |
 Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet |
 Quikscript/Read Alphabet |
 Shavian |
Simpel-Fonetik |  Unifon |
These writing systems that can be used to phonetically indicate the pronunciation of any language.
 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) |
 Visible Speech |
 Blissymbolics |
 Braille |
 Graffiti |
 Moon |
 Shorthand |
 Solresol |
 Sutton SignWriting |
These communication systems are designed to send messages via flags, lights, sound or electric pulses.
 Maritime Signal Flags |
-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • Morse code |  Semaphore |
 Alphabet of the Magi |
 Angelic/Celestial |
 Daggers |
 Enochian |
 Malachim |
 Passing the River |
 Theban |
Constructed scripts for: Ainu | Arabic | Chinese languages | Dutch | English | French | Hawaiian | Hungarian | Japanese | Kadazandusun | Korean | Lingala | Malay & Indonesian | Persian | Tagalog / Filipino | Russian | Sanskrit | Spanish | Taino | Turkish | Vietnamese | Welsh | Other natural languages | Colour-based scripts | Tactile scripts | Phonetic/universal scripts | Constructed scripts for constructed languages | Adaptations of existing alphabets | Fictional alphabets | Magical alphabets | A-Z index | How to submit a constructed script
Abjads | Alphabets | Abugidas | Syllabaries | Semanto-phonetic scripts | Undeciphered scripts | Alternative scripts | Constructed scripts | Fictional scripts | Magical scripts | Index (A-Z) | Index (by direction) | Index (by language) | What is writing? | Types of writing system | Differences between writing and speech | Language and Writing Statistics | Languages (A-Z) | Languages (by family)
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