List of languages by writing system
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Arabic script
- Arabic language
- Azerbaijani language (Iran)
- Balochi language
- Berber languages
- Fulani language (on occasion)
- Hausa language (on occasion)
- Kanuri language (on occasion)
- Kashmiri language
- Kurdish language (Iran and Iraq)
- Malagasy language (until the 19th c.)
- Malay language (14th - 17th c.)
- Ottoman Turkish
- Punjabi language (Pakistan)
- Persian language
- Pashtu language
- Sindhi language
- Sulu language
- Swahili language (on occasion)
- Tajik language
- Urdu language
- Uyghur language
Many languages of Russian and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
Armenian alphabet
Brahmic family and derivatives
- Assamese language
- Bengali language
- Gujarati language
- Hindi
- Kannada language
- Khmer language
- Korean language (Hangul)
- Lao language
- Malayalam language
- Marathi language
- Mongol language (Phagspa)
- Oriya language
- Punjabi language (India)
- Sanskrit language
- Sinhala
- Tamil language
- Telugu language
- Thai language
- Tibetan language
Canadian Syllabics
- Blackfoot language
- Chipewyan language
- Cree language
- Dakelh language
- Inuktitut language
- Ojibwe language
- Sekani language
- Slavey language
- Tasttine language
- Tłįchǫ language
Cyrillic alphabet
- Azerbaijani language (Azerbaijan)
- Belarusian language
- Bulgarian language
- Kazakh language
- Kyrgyz language
- Macedonian language
- Mongolian language
- Russian language
- Serbian language
- Tajik language
- Ukrainian language
And many others, see Languages using Cyrillic.
Ethiopic script
Georgian alphabet
Greek alphabet
- Coptic language
- Gothic language (extinct)
- Greek language
Han characters and derivatives
- Chinese language
- Japanese language (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean language (hanja only)
- Khitan language (extinct)
- Tangut language (extinct)
- Jurchen language (extinct)
- Zhuang language (obsolete)
- Miao language (obsolete)
- Vietnamese language (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (obsolete)
Hebrew alphabet
- Aramaic language (and other writing systems)
- Hebrew language
- Hulaula language
- Juhuri language
- Ladino language
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Yiddish language
Latin alphabet
- Afrikaans language
- Albanian language
- Asturian language
- Basque language
- Belarusian language (originally, called "Łacinka", now mainly uses Cyrillic alphabet.)
- Breton language
- Catalan language
- Corsican language
- Croatian language
- Czech language
- Danish language
- Dutch language
- English language
- Esperanto
- Estonian language
- Faroese language
- Finnish language
- French language
- Galician language
- German language
- Hungarian language
- Icelandic language
- Ido language
- Indonesian language
- Javanese language
- Latin language
- Latvian language
- Lithuanian language
- Luxembourgish language
- Maori language
- Malay language
- Moldovan language
- Norwegian language
- Occitan language
- Polish language
- Portuguese language
- Romanian language
- Serbian language
- Slovak language
- Slovenian language
- Spanish language
- Swedish language
- Tagalog
- Tatar language
- Turkish language
- Turoyo language (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Vietnamese language
- Walloon language
- Welsh language
Munda scripts
Sorang Sompeng
- Sora language
Ol Cemet'
Varang Kshiti
Pahawh Hmong script
Syriac alphabet
- Arabic language (see Garshuni)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
- Hertevin language
- Koy Sanjaq Surat
- Senaya language
- Syriac language
- Turoyo language (also has new Latin-based script)