List of languages by writing system - Definition and Overview

Arabic script

• Arabic language
• Azerbaijani language (Iran)
• Balochi language
• Kashmiri language
• Kurdish language (Iran and Iraq)
• Malay language (14th - 17th c.)
• Ottoman Turkish
• Punjabi language (Pakistan)
• Persian language
• Pushtu language
• Urdu language
• Uyghur language

Armenian alphabet

• Armenian language

Brahmic family and derivatives

• Assamese language
• Bengali language
• Gujarati language
• Hindi
• Kannada language
• Khmer language
• Lao language
• Malayalam language
• Marathi language
• Oriya language
• Punjabi language (India)
• Sanskrit language
• Sinhala
• Tamil language
• Telugu language
• Thai language
• Tibetan language

Cyrillic alphabet

• Azerbaijani language (Azerbaijan)
• Belarusian language
• Bulgarian language
• Kazakh language
• Kyrgyz language
• Macedonian language
• Moldovan language
• Mongolian language
• Russian language
• Serbian language
• Tajik language
• Ukrainian language

Ethiopic script

• Amharic language
• Ge'ez language
• Tigrignan language

Georgian alphabet

• Georgian language
• Svan language

Greek alphabet

• Greek language

Han characters and derivatives

• Chinese language
• Japanese language
• Korean language
• Vietnamese language (Chữ nôm)
• Khitan language (extinct)
• Tangut language (extinct)
• Jurchen language (extinct)
• Zhuang language (obsolete)
• Miao language (obsolete)
• Yi language (obsolete)
• Mongol language (Phags-pa) (obsolete)

Hebrew alphabet

• Hebrew language
• Ladino
• Yiddish language

Latin alphabet and derivatives

• Albanian language
• Catalan language
• Croatian language
• Czech language
• Danish language
• Dutch language
• English language
• Esperanto
• Estonian language
• Finnish language
• French language
• German language
• Hungarian language
• Icelandic language
• Javanese language
• Latin language
• Latvian language
• Lithuanian language
• Malay language
• Norwegian language
• Polish language
• Portuguese language
• Romanian language
• Slovak language
• Slovenian language
• Spanish language
• Swedish language
• Tagalog
• Tatar language
• Turkish language
• Vietnamese language