17+ languages and counting

The most widely used script. Includes all Western European languages with letters like é, ñ, ø.

Used across Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and many Central Asian nations. Over 50 languages use Cyrillic.

A right-to-left script used by over 400 million people. Notably, vowels are often omitted in writing.

Another right-to-left abjad, historically used for biblical texts and modern Israeli Hebrew.

Chinese characters (hanzi/kanji/hanja) used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

Phonetic alphabet created in 1443. Designed to be easy to learn with 14 basic consonants and 10 vowels.

Used for many Indo-Aryan languages of the Indian subcontinent. Each character includes a default vowel.

Script of the Thai language with complex tone marks and no spaces between words.

The script of classical antiquity, still used for Greek and mathematical/scientific notation.

An independent script created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD. 38 letters, one for each sound.

One of the few unique scripts that has its own Unicode block. Three historic scripts in one.

One of the oldest living scripts in the world, used primarily for Tamil language in India and Sri Lanka.