Other texts discovered in Egypt and dating to the period before Islam include those written in: Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ... Development of hieratic script from hieroglyphs; after Champollion. ... Middle (Ptolemaic) Demotic script on a replica of the Rosetta stone. ... The Coptic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Coptic language. ...
Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The ancient South Arabian alphabet (also known as musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in ca. ... The Aramaic alphabet is an abjad alphabet designed for writing the Aramaic language. ... 11th century book in Syriac Serto. ... The Phoenician alphabet dates from around 1400 BC and is related to the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. ... The Nabatean alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (abjad) that was used by the Nabateans in the 2nd century BC. Important inscriptions are found in Petra. ...