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Burmese alphabet
abugida used for writing Burmese
Telugu
writing system from the Brahmic family of scripts
Tengwar
The Tengwar () script is an artificial script, one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Within the context of Tolkien's fictional world, the Tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elvish languages Quenya and Telerin. Later a great number of Tolkien's constructed languages were written using the Tengwar, including Sindarin. Tolkien used Tengwar to write English: most of Tolkien's Tengwar samples are actually in English.
Proto-Sinaitic
Middle Bronze Age script
Baybayin
Baybayin (, ), also sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries and prior to write Tagalog and to a lesser extent Visayan languages, Kampampangan, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages.
Gujarati
Indian script
Malayalam script
Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language
N’ko
alphabetic script initially created by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a transcription system for Manding languages in Western Africa, now designed and developed to become a pan-African script covering their phonology
Cherokee syllabary
writing system invented by Sequoyah for the Cherokee language
Odia
writing system used to write Odia, Sambalpuri and Kuvi languages
Old Hungarian
alphabetic writing system used by the Hungarians from the Middle Ages
Lao
abugida script for the Lao language
Ugaritic alphabet
Cuneiform consonantal alphabet of 30 letters
Old Uyghur alphabet
historic Sogdian-based alphabet
Thaana
Thaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna (  ) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritics, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), with consonants derived from indigenous and Arabic numerals, and vowels derived from the vowel diacritics of the Arabic abjad. Maldivian orthography in Thaana is largely phonemic.
Sinhala script
Brahmic writing system
Javanese script
writing system used for Javanic languages
chữ Nôm
former logographic writing system for the Vietnamese language using Han ideographs
Khwarezmian
extinct East Iranian language closely related to Sogdian
Siddhaṃ
Brahmic script, used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200, and later employed in Mikkyō (Japanese esoteric Buddhism) for religious purposes
Old South Arabian script
abjad used for writing Old South Arabian languages
Balinese
indigenous script of Balinese used in Bali
Avestan
alphabet mainly used in Zoroastrian scriptures to transcribe the old Avestan language
Sharada
Brahmic abugida used to write the Kashmiri and Pundjabi languages, or to transcribe the Sanskrit language
ʼPhags-pa
Tibeto-Mongol alphasyllabary/abugida used in China during Yuan Dynasty
Old Permic alphabet
writing system
Cypriot syllabary
Cypriot syllabary writing system
Kawi script
ancient Javanese abugida
Nabataean script
abjad
Fraktur
thumb|A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur(a), Rotunda, [[Schwabacher and Fraktur.]]
Nüshu
Nüshu (; ; ; ) is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used by ethnic Yao women for several centuries in Jiangyong, a county within the southern Chinese province of Hunan. From the early 21st century there have been official efforts to revitalise the script, as well as indications of renewed interest among the wider public.
Grantha
Indian script
Lontara
script traditionally used for the Bugis, Makassarese, and Mandar languages of Sulawesi in Indonesia
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
abjad found in Canaanite inscriptions from the region of biblical Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew, later replaced by the modern Hebrew square script
Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Arabic-script alphabet used to write Ottoman Turkish
hentaigana
In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.
Kaithi
Kaithi (, ), also called Kayathi (), Kayasthi (, ), Kayastani, or Kaite Lipi () in Nepali, is a Brahmic script historically used across parts of Northern and Eastern India. It was prevalent in regions corresponding to modern-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. The script was primarily utilized for legal, administrative, and private records and was adapted for a variety of Indo-Aryan languages, including Angika, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Hindustani, Surjapuri, Maithili, Magahi, and Nagpuri.
Inuktitut syllabics
abugida-type writing system used in Canada
Early Cyrillic alphabet
Slavic writing system developed in the 9th century in the First Bulgarian Empire
Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet
writing system of standard Mongolian in Mongolia
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
writing system for indigenous North American languages created in 1840 CE
Meetei Mayek
writing system used to write Meitei language
Ranjana
language script that uses Abugida writing system
Bulgarian alphabet
alphabet of the Bulgarian language
Blissymbols
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.
Yi script
script used to write Yi people's language
Manchu alphabet
alphabet based on Mongolian alphabet
Modi
historical script used in the Maratha Empire
Sogdian
alphabet used for the Sogdian language of central Asia
Samaritan alphabet
writing system
Macedonian alphabet
alphabet of the Macedonian language with 31 letters
Tirhuta
abugida used for the Maithili language originated in Mithila region
Sütterlin
'''''' (, ' script') is the last widely used form of , the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably ') typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education (') to create a modern handwriting script in 1911. His handwriting scheme gradually replaced the older cursive scripts that had developed in the 16th century at the same time that letters in books had developed into Fraktur. The name '''' is nowadays often used to refer to several similar varieties of old German handwrit
Tajik Cyrillic alphabet
alphabet used to write the Tajik language
Batak script
writing system used for several Batak languages
Ol Chiki
alphabetic script for Santal, invented in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu and publicized in 1939
Vai syllabary
writing system constructed in the 1830s for the Vai language in Liberia
Kurrent
thumb|right|Danish script () from about 1800 with ⟨Æ⟩ and ⟨Ø⟩ at the end of the alphabet. thumb|right|Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021.
Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet used to write the Belarusian language
Clear Script
alphabet created in 1648 by the Buddhist monk Zaya Pandita for the Oirat language