Writing Systems

List of writing systems or also known as scripts.

A

Achaemenid Elamite (RTL) Adinkra (LTR) Adlam (RTL) Afaka (LTR) Ahom (LTR) Akkadian Cuneiform Aksara Sunda (LTR) Ancient Berber (RTL) Ancient South Arabian Monumental Script (Horizontal, LTR) Arabic (RTL) Aramaic Armenian alphabet (LTR) Avestan (RTL) Aztec

B

Balinese Bamum (LTR) Bassa Vah (LTR) Batak (BTT,LTR) Bengali (LTR) Beria Giray Erfe (LTR) Bhaiksuki (LTR) Bopomofo (LTR) Brahmi (LTR) Braille Buhid (LTR) Burmese (LTR) Buryat (TTB LTR) Byblos

C

Carian (RTL,LTR) Chakma Cham (LTR) Cherokee (RTL) Chinese (TTB,RTL) Chisoi (LTR) Chữ Nôm Chữ Quốc Ngữ (LTR) Coptic (LTR) Cree (LTR) Cretan Crypriote Cypro-Minoan Cyrillic script (LTR)

D

Dbu Can (LTR) Dbu Med Dehong (LTR) Demotic (RTL) Deseret (LTR) Devanāgarī (LTR) Dhivehi (LTR) Dives Akuru (LTR) Dogra (LTR)

E

Early Georgian Eghap Elbasan (LTR) Epi-Olmec (LTR,TTB in columns) Eskaya Ethiopic (LTR) Etruscan (LTR,RTL)

F

Faliscan (RTL) Fox Fula Dita Futhark Runes (LTR)

G

Georgian (LTR) Glagolitic (LTR) Gothic (LTR) Grantha (LTR) Greek alphabet (LTR) Gujarati (LTR) Gupta Gurmukhī (LTR)

H

Hangul (LTR, RTL and TTB) Hanunoo (Any Direction ) Hatran (RTL) Hausa Ajami (RTL) Hebrew (RTL) Hebrew (Square) (RTL) Hieratic (RTL) Hieroglyphic (TBB if in columns) Hiragana (LTR, TTB) Hittite Ho (LTR)

I

Iberian (LTR) Indus (RTL) International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Inuktitut (LTR)

J

Javanese Jurchen (RTL in vertical column, TTB)

K

Kaddare Kalmyk-Oriat (Todo Bichig) (TTB than LTR) Kanji (TTB RTL) Kannada (LTR) Katakana (TTB LTR) Kawi (LTR) Kayah Li Kenzi (RTL) Kharoshithi (RTL) Khmer (LTR) Kitan (TTB RTL) Kpelle (LTR) Kufic

L

Landā (LTR) Lao (LTR) Later Georgian Latin script (LTR) Lepcha (RTL) Limbu (LTR) Linear A (LTR) Linear B Greek (LTR) Loma (LTR) Lontara (LTR) Lycian (LTR) Lydian (Early forms were LTR then RTL)

M

Malayalam (LTR) Manchu (TTB, LTR) Mandaean (RTL) Mandaic Mandombe (LTR) Manichaean (RTL) Masaba (RTL) Mayan (top to bottom, LTR in paired columns) Meitei Mayek (LTR) Mende (Horizontally RTL) Meroitic (RTL ) Mi’Kmaq Ideographics Miao (Horizontal LTR) Modi (LTR) Mon (LTR) Mongolian Morse Code Mwangwego, (LTR)

N

N’Ko (RTL) Nabataean (RTL) Nandinagari (LTR) Nastaliq (RTL) Naxi Dongba (LTR) Naxi Geba (LTR) Newa (LTR) Nsibidi (Boustrophedon) Nubian Nüshu (TTB) Nyctography

O

Ocs Cyrillic (LTR) Ocs Glagolitic (LTR) Ogham (Boustrophedon) Oirat Ol Cemet’ Old Hungarian (RTL) Old North Arabian (Boustrophedon) Old Persian Old Turkic (RTL) Old Uyghur (Horizontally RTL, Vertically TTB) Oracle-Bone Oriya (LTR) Oromo (LTR) Oshitelu Osmanya (LTR)

P

Pahawh Hmong (LTR) Pahlavi (LTR) Pallava (LTR) Palmyrene (RTL) Perso-Arabic script Phags-Pa (TTB, Verticle Columns, LTR) Phaistos Disk Phoenician (RTL) Phrygian (LTR, RTL) Proto-Canaanite Proto-Cuneiform Proto-Elamite (RTL) Proto-Sinaitic (RTL, LTR (Variable))

Q

Qin (TTB, RTL)

R

Rejang (LTR) Rongorongo

S

Samaritan Shang Unit Characters (TTB, RTL) Sharada (LTR) Shaw (LTR) Sinhala (LTR) Sogdian (RTL) Sorang Sompeng Sumerian Cuneiform Sundanese (LTR) Syriac (RTL)

T

Tagalog (LTR) Takri (LTR) Tamil (LTR) Tangut (RTL, LTR) Taymanitic (RTL) Telugu (LTR) Thaana (RTL) Thai script (LTR) Tiberian (RTL) Tibetan (LTR) Tifinigh (TTB RTL) Tirhuta (LTR) Tocharian (LTR) Todhri Truk (Type 1) Turkic Runiform (RTL)

U

Ugaritic (LTR) Uyghur

V

Vai (LTR) Vatteluttu (LTR) Venetic (sinistrograde, detrograde and boustrophedon) Vithkuqi (LTR)

W

Western Cham (LTR) Woleai (Type 2) (LTR) Wolof (RTL)

X

Xyz

Y

Yi

Z

Zanabazar Square (LTR) Zapotec (LTR, TTB) Zou (LTR)