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Principal writing systems currently in use worldwide at the national level, with provincial-level and minority scripts in certain cases.

Abjads (Green)

 
Arabic
 
Hebrew

Abugidas (Orange and yellow)

 
Northern Brahmic
 
Southern Brahmic
 
Canadian syllabics
 
Geʽez
 
Thaana

Alphabets (Blue and cyan)

 
Armenian
 
Cyrillic
 
Georgian
 
Greek
 
Latin
 
Mongolian
 
Neo-Tifinagh
 
Osage

Syllabaries (Purple)

 
Cherokee

Logographies (Red)

 
Hanzi

Hybrids and combinations (Pink)

 
Japanese (Logographic kanji and syllabic kana)
 
Korean (Alphabetic and syllabic Hangul, with limited use of logographic Hanja)
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current01:38, 12 January 2025Thumbnail for version as of 01:38, 12 January 20252,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)wikimediacommons>ProsnuReverted to version as of 03:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC), Persian and Pashto are Arabic alphabets no need to consider them as separate, it's like saying Turkish is not a Latin alphabet because they have additional letters

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