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1. 1. Bulgarian
   2. Early Cyrillic
   3. Macedonian
   4. Russian
   5. Serbian
   6. Tuvan
   7. Ukrainian
2. Deseret
3. Devanagari
4. Ge'ez
5. Etruscan
6. Georgian
7. Glagolitic
8. Gothic
9. Greek
10. Gujarati
11. Gurmukhī
12. Hebrew
13. Hungarian runes
14. Iberian
15. Japanese syllabic alphabet (kana)
16. Old Italic
17. Old Persian
18. Kannada
19. Kavi
20. Kharosthi (also known as Gandhari script)
21. Khmer
22. Korean
23. Lao
24. Latin alphabet (also known as Roman alphabet)
    1. Albanian
    2. Azerbaijani
    3. Beghilos
    4. Belarusian Łacinka
    5. Catalan
    6. Czech
    7. Danish
    8. Dutch
    9. English
    10. Esperanto
    11. Estonian
    12. Finnish
    13. French
    14. German
    15. Great Lakes Aboriginal Syllabics (also known as Pa-Pe-Pi-Po Alphabet or Traditional System)
    16. Hawaiian
    17. Hungarian
    18. Icelandic
    19. Indonesian
    20. Initial Teaching Alphabet
    21. Italian
    22. Latvian
    23. Lithuanian
    24. Maltese
    25. Norwegian
    26. Polish
    27. Portuguese
    28. Romaji (Japanese written with Roman script)
    29. Romanian
    30. Romany
    31. Rotokas
    32. Scottish Gaelic
    33. Slovenian
    34. Spanish
    35. Swedish
    36. Turkish
    37. Vietnamese
    38. Welsh
25. Malayalam
26. Meroitic
27. Pahlavi (Middle-Persian)
28. Mongolian
29. Ogham
30. Oriya
31. Orkhon
32. Phoenician
33. Runic
34. Samaritan
35. Shavian
36. Siddham
37. Sinhala
38. Syriac
39. Tamil
40. Telugu
41. Thaana
42. Thai
43. Tibetan
44. Tifinagh
45. Ugaritic

The Early Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in Bulgaria during the 10th century A.D. for the writing of Old Church Slavonic. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari (early 19th century) DevanāgarÄ« (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida alphabet used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ... The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... Tablet inscribed with the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet. ... Representation of the Gothic alphabet surrounding its inventor Ulfilas The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Wulfila used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ... The Gujarati script, which like all Nagari writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati language and resembles Devanagari script without the line. ... The GurmukhÄ« (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ or ਗੁਰਮੁੱਖੀ) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in the 16th century, was designed to write the Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) language. ... This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. ... Hungarian Runes (Székely Rovásírás in Hungarian; also called rovas) is a type of runic writing system used among the pagan Magyars prior to 1000 AD, when the first Christian king of Hungary, St. ... The Iberian alphabet was an alphabet, with some of the features of a syllabary, that was used to write the Iberian and Celtiberian languages. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 For other meanings of Kana, see Kana (disambiguation). ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages in India. ... Kavi is the oldest script of Javanese language, and is derived from the Indic Brahmi. ... The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient alphabetic script used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest India to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages (the Gandhara kingdom was located along the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan between the Indus River and the... The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog translated into Khmer. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... It has been suggested that Calculator Spelling be merged into this article or section. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The Catalan alphabet comes from the Roman alphabet. ... The English language has been written using the Latin alphabet from ca. ... Esperanto is written in an alphabet of twenty-eight letters. ... Great Lakes Aboriginal Syllabics is a Latin-based syllabic system used by the the Native Americans tribes surrounding the Great Lakes. ... Hawaiian is the ancestral language of the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaiians, a Polynesian people. ... The Initial Teaching Alphabet was developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of a system of shorthand, who himself took up the issue of spelling reform with a variant typeface) as a tool for teaching children to read English. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ... The Romany alphabet (Romani Å¡ib) is the official standard alphabet for writing the Romany language, in all of its many dialects. ... The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the eleven letters: A E I K O P R S T U V, and is arguably the smallest alphabet of any known language, save the Pirahã language. ... The Scottish Gaelic alphabet contains 18 letters, five of which are vowels. ... The Welsh alphabet contains 28 letters, seven of which are vowels. ... The Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write the Malayalam language. ... The Meroitic script is an alphabet of Egyptian (Hieroglyphic) origin used in Kingdom of Meroë. Some scholars, e. ... The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian Empire to write down Middle Persian for secular, as well as religious purposes. ... Middle Persian or Pahlavi is the Iranian language spoken during Sassanian times. ... Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. ... The Oriya script is used to write the Oriya language. ... Orkhon script The Orkhon script is the earliest known Turkic alphabet. ... The Phoenician alphabet dates from around 1400 BC and is related to the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. ... Younger Futhark inscription on the Vaksala Runestone The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia and the British Isles, but before Christianization also on the European Continent. ... The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Siddham (Sanskrit, accomplished or perfected) — referred to in Japanese as bonji (梵字) — is the name of a North Indian script used for writing Sanskrit. ... The Sinhala script is used to write the Sinhala language. ... 11th century book in Syriac Serto. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Telugu alphabet, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language. ... Thaana is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. ... The Tibetan script was created in the mid-7th century, by Thonmi Sambhota, a Tibetan official, with the assistance of some Indian Buddhist monks. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform version of the Levantine consonant alphabet (abjad), used from around 1300 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit, Syria. ...

Special alphabets

1. American Sign Language
2. Braille
3. International maritime signal flags
4. International Phonetic Alphabet
5. LAPD phonetic alphabet
6. Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
7. Manual
8. Moon type
9. Morse code
10. NATO phonetic alphabet
11. New York Point
12. RAF phonetic alphabet
13. Semaphore

The American Sign Language alphabet is a manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language when spelling individual letters of a word is the preferred or only option, such as with proper names or the titles of works. ... PREMIER - first The braille system, named after Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. ... The system of international maritime signal flags is a way of representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... The LAPD phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in phonetics, i. ... The Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet was developed in 1941 and was used by all branches of the United States military until the promulgation of the NATO phonetic alphabet in 1956, which replaced it. ... A manual alphabet is a system of representing all the letters of an alphabet, using only the hands. ... The Moon System of Embossed Reading (Moon alphabet, Moon type or Moon code) is a system of writing for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Roman alphabet (but simplified). ... 1922 Chart of the Morse Code Letters and Numerals Morse code is a method for transmitting information, using standardized sequences of short and long marks or pulses — commonly known as dots and dashes — for the letters, numerals and special characters of a message. ... FAA radiotelephony phonetic alphabet and Morse code chart. ... New York Point is a system of writing for the blind invented by William Bell Wait (1839-1916), a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. ... The RAF phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in phonetics, i. ... A Chappe semaphore tower near Saverne, France // The semaphore or optical telegraph is an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, with towers with pivoting blades or paddles, shutters, in a matrix, or hand-held flags etc. ...

Alternative alphabets

1. Pitman Shorthand
2. Gregg Shorthand
3. Quikscript

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Gregg Shorthand is a form of shorthand that was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888. ... Quickscript is an alternate alphabet for the English language, designed to be phonetically regular, compact, and comfortably and quickly writable. ...

Fictional alphabets

1. Aurebesh
2. Klingon
3. Tengwar
4. Goa'uld

The Aurebesh script Aurebesh is the alphabet commonly used to represent the English (Galactic Basic) language in the Star Wars universe. ... The Klingon language or Klingonese (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English) The Tengwar are an artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... The Goauld language is a fictional language spoken by the Goauld and Jaffa from the television series Stargate SG-1. ...

See also

Category:Character sets - computer representations of alphabets, especially Unicode Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...

External links

• Alphabets & Diacritics
• Roman Alphabets