List of languages by writing system

This article is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).

Arabic alphabet

*Arabic
*Azeri (Iran)
*Balochi
*Berber
*Fulani (on occasion)
*Hausa (on occasion)
*Kanuri (on occasion)
*Kashmiri
*Kazakh in China
*Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
*Malagasy (until the 19th c.)
*Malay (14th - 17th c.)
*Mazanderani
*Ottoman Turkish
*Punjabi (Pakistan)
*Persian
*Pashtu
*Sindhi
*Tausug
*Swahili (on occasion)
*Tajik (on occasion)
*Urdu
*Uyghur

Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
*Bashkir
*Kazakh
*Kyrgyz
*Tatar
*Uzbek

*in occasion Belarusian language

Armenian alphabet

*Armenian

Brahmic family and derivatives

Devanagari

*Sanskrit
*Hindi
*Marathi
*Maithili
*Bhojpuri
*Nepali
*Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
*Konkani
*Kashmiri
*Bodo
*Dogri

=Eastern Nagari script (Bengalese/Assamese)=

*Bengali
*Assamese
*Meitei

Balinese script

*Balinese language (formerly)

= Baybayin script (Tagalog)=

*Ilokano (formerly)
*Kapampangan (formerly)
*Pangasinan (formerly)
*Tagalog (formerly)
*Bikol language (formerly)
*Visayan languages (formerly)

Buhid script

*Buhid

Burmese script (Myanmar)

*Burmese

Gujarati script

*Gujarati

Gurmukhi script

*Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)

Hanunó'o script

*Hanunó'o

Javanese script (Hanacaraka)

*Javanese (in old literatures, and a part of cultural heritage)
*Sundanese

Kannada script

*Kannada
*Konkani
*Tulu

Khmer script

*Khmer

Lao script

*Lao

Lepcha script

*Lepcha

Limbu script

*Limbu

Lontara script (Buginese)

*Buginese (formerly)

Malayalam script

*Malayalam
*Konkani

Oriya script

*Oriya

Phagspa script

*Mongolian (formerly)

Sinhala script

*Sinhala

Tagbanwa script

*Languages of Palawan

Tamil script

*Tamil

Telugu script

*Telugu

Thai script

*Thai

Tibetan script

*Tibetan
*Dzongkha
*Ladakhi

=Canadian syllabics=

*Blackfoot
*Chipewyan
*Cree
*Dakelh
*Inuktitut
*Ojibwe
*Sekani
*Slavey
*Tasttine
*Tłįchǫ

=Cherokee Script=

*Cherokee

Coptic alphabet

*Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)

Cyrillic alphabet

Ge'ez alphabet (Ethiopic)

*Amharic
*Ge'ez
*Tigrigna

Georgian alphabet

*Georgian
*Laz
*Mingrelian
*Svan

Glagolitic alphabet

*Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)

Gothic alphabet

*Gothic (extinct)

Greek alphabet

*Bactrian (extinct)
*Greek
*Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin alphabet

Han characters and derivatives

*Chinese
**Guan (Mandarin)
**Wu which includes Shanghainese
**Yue (Cantonese)
**Min which includes Taiwanese
**Xiang
**Hakka
**Gan
**Jin from Mandarin
**Huizhou from Wu
**Ping partly from Cantonese
*Dong
*Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
*Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts, and newspapers.)
*Khitan (extinct)
*Tangut (extinct)
*Jurchen (extinct)
*Zhuang (obsolete)
*Miao (obsolete)
*Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (almost extinct)
*Nakhi (the Geba script, fell into disuse)

Hangul

*Korean

Hebrew alphabet

*Aramaic (and other writing systems)
*Bukhori
*Hebrew
*Hulaula
*Juhuri
*Ladino
*Lishan Didan
*Lishana Deni
*Lishanid Noshan
*Yiddish

Kana

*Japanese plus (kanji)
*Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone

Latin alphabet

*Afrikaans
*Albanian
*Aragonese
*Asturian
*Azeri
*Basque
*Belarusian (formerly, called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic.)
*Boholano
*Breton
*Catalan
*Cebuano
*Cornish
*Corsican
*Croatian
*Czech
*Danish
*Dutch
*English
*Esperanto
*Estonian
*Faroese
*Filipino
*Finnish
*French
*Frisian
*Friulian
*Fula (Pulaar)
*Gaelic (Scottish)
*Galician
*German
*Gikuyu
*Guaraní
*Hausa (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
*Hawai'ian
*Hungarian (used runic writing system prior to AD 1000)
*Icelandic
*Ido
*Igbo
*Ilocano
*Indonesian
*Interlingua
*Innu-aimun
*Irish
*Italian
*Javanese - Also uses alphabet called "Hanacaraka" in certain areas
*Kikongo
*Kinyarwanda
*Kirundi
*Kurdish (Kurmanji)
*Latin
*Latvian
*Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
*Leonese
*Lingala
*Lithuanian
*Lombard
*Luganda
*Luxembourgish
*Maori
*Malay
*Maltese
*Manx
*Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
*Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
*Navaho or Navajo
*Ndebele
*Norwegian
*Occitan
*Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
*Polish
*Portuguese
*Quechua
*Romanian (formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet
*Samoan
*Scots
*Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
*Shona
*Slovak
*Slovenian
*Somali (formerly used the Arabic alphabet and Osmanya script)
*Spanish
*Swahili
*Swedish
*Tagalog
*Tahitian
*Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
*Tongan
*Tswana
*Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
*Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
*Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
*Volapük
*Võro
*Walloon
*Welsh
*Wolof
*Xhosa
*Yoruba
*Zulu

N'ko

*N'ko

Og(h)am

*Primitive Irish
*Pictish

Mongolian script

*Mongolian

=Munda scripts=

Sorang Sompeng

*Sora

Ol Cemet'

*Santali

Varang Kshiti

*Ho

Pahawh Hmong

*Hmong

Runic Alphabet

*Proto-Norse inscriptions
*Old Norse (also Latin alphabet)
*Old Danish (also Latin alphabet)
*Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin alphabet)
*Old Frisian (also Latin alphabet)
*Old Hungarian

Syriac alphabet

*Arabic ("see" Garshuni)
*Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
*Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
*Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
*Hertevin
*Koy Sanjaq Surat
*Senaya
*Syriac
*Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script)

Thaana

*Dhivehi

Tifinagh

*Amazigh (Morocco)
*Tuareg

Yi script

*Yi