List of languages by writing system
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Parkaran
Arabic script change
- Arabic
- Azeri (Iran)
- Balochi
- Berber
- Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script)
- Fulani (on occasion)
- Hausa (on occasion)
- Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
- Kanuri (on occasion)
- Kashmiri
- Kazakh in China
- Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
- Malagasy (until the 19th century)
- Malay (14th - 17th century)
- Mazanderani
- Mozarabic (now extinct)
- Ottoman Turkish
- Pashto
- Persian
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Saraiki
- Sindhi
- Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik (on occasion)
- Tausug
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Yoruba (rarely see Ajami script)
Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
Armenian script change
Borama script change
Brahmic family and derivatives change
Devanagari change
- Sanskrit
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Maithili
- Bhojpuri
- Nepali
- Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
- Konkani
- Kashmiri
- Bodo
- Dogri
- Gondi,Adilabad
- Gondi, Aheri
- Andh
- Angika
- Asuri
- Athpariya
- Awadhi
- Bagheli
- Bagri
- Bahing
- Bantawa
- Baram
- Bateri
- Belhariya
- Bhadrawahi
- Bharia
- Bhatri
Assamese/Bengali change
Balinese script change
- Balinese language (formerly)
Baybayin script change
- Ilokano (formerly)
- Kapampangan (formerly)
- Pangasinan (formerly)
- Tagalog (formerly)
- Bikol language (formerly)
- Visayan languages (formerly)
Buhid script change
Burmese script change
Gujarati script change
Gurmukhi script change
- Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
Hanunó'o script change
Javanese script (Hanacaraka) change
Kannada script change
Khmer script change
Lao script change
Lepcha script change
Limbu script change
Lontara script (Buginese) change
- Buginese (formerly)
Malayalam script change
Oriya script change
'Phags-pa script change
- Chinese (formerly)
- Mongolian (formerly)
- Sanskrit (formerly)
- Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
- Uyghur (formerly)
Sinhala script change
Tagbanwa script change
Tamil script change
Telugu script change
Thaana script change
Thai script change
Tibetan script change
- Tibetan
- Dzongkha
- Ladakhi
- Zhang-Zhung (extinct)
Canadian Aboriginal script change
Cherokee script change
Coptic alphabet change
- Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Cyrillic script change
- Abkhaz
- Belarusian
- Bosnian (also Latin script and Arebica)
- Bulgarian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Dungan
- Interslavic (also Latin script)
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
- Kazakh
- Komi
- Kyrgyz
- Macedonian
- Mongolian
- Ossetic
- Russian
- Rusyn
- Serbian (also Latin script)
- Tajiki
- Tatar
- Tuvan
- Udmurt
- Ukrainian
Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica) change
Ge'ez script (Ethiopic) change
Georgian script change
- Georgian
- Laz (sometimes Latin)
- Mingrelian
- Svan
Glagolitic alphabet change
- Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
- Croatian (formerly)
Gothic alphabet change
- Gothic (extinct)
Greek script change
- Bactrian (extinct)
- Greek
- Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
- Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
Chinese characters and derivatives change
- Chinese
- Minority languages in China
- Dong
- Bai (obsolete)
- Miao (obsolete)
- Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete)
- Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts and newspapers)
- Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use virtually extinct)
- Extinct languages
- Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
- Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
- Tangut, written in Tangut script
Hangul change
Hebrew script change
- Aramaic (and other writing systems)
- Bukhori
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Judeo-Berber
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
- Judeo-Moroccan
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems)
- Judeo-Yemenite
- Juhuri
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Shuadit
- Yiddish
- Zarphatic
Kaddare script change
Kana change
Khitan scripts change
- Khitan (extinct)
Latin script change
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Aymara
- Azeri
- Basque
- Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic)
- Bislama
- Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Bosnian ( also Cyrillic script and Arebica )
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chamorro
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Filipino (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Finnish
- French
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Fula (Pulaar)
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- Galician
- Ganda
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Haitian
- Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Hawai'ian
- Hiti Motu
- Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000)
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Ilocano (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Indonesian
- Interlingua
- Innu-aimun
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese - Also uses an alphabet called Hanacaraka in certain areas
- Judeo-Spanish - Also uses other scripts
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Kongo
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Latin
- Latvian
- Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
- Leonese
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- Luxembourgish
- Maori
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Maltese
- Manx
- Marshallese
- Mingrelia
- Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
- Montenegrin
- Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
- Nauruan
- Navaho or Navajo
- Ndebele
- Norwegian
- Occitan
- Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
- Palauan
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Romanian (formerly used a Cyrillic alphabet)
- Romansh
- Samoan
- Scots
- Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
- Seychellois creole
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and Osmanya script)
- Sotho (Northern)
- Sotho (Southern)
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Swati
- Tagalog (formerly used the Baybayin)
- Tahitian
- Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
- Tetum
- Tok Pisin
- Tongan
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Turkish (formerly used the Arabic script)
- Turoyo (new Latin alphabet, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Uzbek (official script, formerly used Cyrillic)
- Venda
- Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
- Volapük
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
- Zazaki
Mayan script change
- Mayan languages (formerly)
change
Old Uyghur alphabet change
- Uyghur (formerly)
Mongolian script change
Manchu script change
Munda scripts change
Sorang Sompeng change
Ol Cemet' change
Varang Kshiti change
N'Ko script change
Naxi script change
- Naxi (obsolete)
Nsibidi change
Ogham change
Osmanya script change
Pahawh Hmong change
Runic script change
- Proto-Norse inscriptions
- Old Norse (also Latin script)
- Old Danish (also Latin script)
- Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin script)
- Old Frisian (also Latin script)
Old Hungarian script change
- Hungarian (also Latin script)
Syriac script change
- 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)