List of languages by writing system
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Arabic script
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani (Iran)
- Balochi
- Berber
- Fulani (on occasion)
- Hausa (on occasion)
- Kanuri (on occasion)
- Kashmiri
- Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
- Malagasy (until the 19th c.)
- Malay (14th - 17th c.)
- Ottoman Turkish
- Punjabi (Pakistan)
- Persian
- Pashtu
- Sindhi
- Sulu
- Swahili (on occasion)
- Tajik
- Urdu
- Uyghur
Many languages of Russian and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic
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Armenian alphabet
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Brahmic family and derivatives
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Korean (Hangul has been controversially claimed to derive from Phagspa)
- Lao
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongol (Phagspa)
- Oriya
- Punjabi (India)
- Sanskrit
- Sinhala
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan
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Canadian Syllabics
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Cyrillic alphabet
- Main article: Languages using Cyrillic
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Ethiopic script
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Georgian alphabet
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Greek alphabet
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Han characters and derivatives
- Chinese
- Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean (obsolete; used in academic texts, and newspapers.)
- Khitan (extinct)
- Tangut (extinct)
- Jurchen (extinct)
- Zhuang (obsolete)
- Miao (obsolete)
- Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (obsolete)
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Hebrew alphabet
- Aramaic (and other writing systems)
- Hebrew
- Hulaula
- Juhuri
- Ladino
- Lishan Didan
- Lishana Deni
- Lishanid Noshan
- Yiddish
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Latin alphabet
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Asturian
- Basque
- Belarusian (formerly, called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic.)
- Breton
- Catalan
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Friulian
- Galician
- German
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Indonesian
- Javanese - Also uses alphabet called "Hanacaraka" in certain areas
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Maori
- Malay
- Moldovan
- Norwegian
- Occitan
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tatar
- Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
- Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Vietnamese
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
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Munda scripts
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Sorang Sompeng
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Ol Cemet'
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Varang Kshiti
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Pahawh Hmong script
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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)
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Thaana
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Tifinagh
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