Home›Abjads›Language(s) WrittenBrowse ByLanguage(s) WrittenLanguages written names every language a given script is actually used to write. Wikipedia notes the Latin script "is used to write over 3,000 languages, spoken by about 70% of the global population," by far the widest reach of any writing system. This dimension shows how many separate languages one script actually serves.FactsLanguage(s) WrittenSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1840 BCE 1Language(s) WrittenFilter Results29 entriesScript TypeAllAbjad (29)DirectionalityAllRight-to-left (28)Top-to-bottom, vertical columns left-to-right (1)Variable (1)Origin Period Start YearAll-1050 (2)-600 (2)-300 (1)-150 (1)1 (3)100 (2)250 (3)400 (20)700 (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllAramaic Alphabet (25)Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)Pahlavi Scripts (1)Sogdian Script (1)Syriac Alphabet (2)Script StatusAllExtinct (7)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (4)Living (in Current Use) (21)Region of OriginAllCentral Asia (2)Iran (1)North Africa (1)Unicode StatusAllEncoded (28)Attested From (Year)All1500 BCE (1)1000 BCE (2)300 BCE (1)100 (1)125 (1)224 (1)683 (1)701 (2)801 (1)1501 (1)1601 (1)1711 (1)Attested To (Year)All300 (1)350 (1)651 (1)1200 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory III (2)Category IV (5)ISO 639-3 CodeAllapc (1)apd (1)ara (1)arz (1)ave (1)aze (1)bal (1)ber (1)hau (1)heb (1)kas (1)kur (1)lah (1)msa (1)pal (1)pes (1)pus (1)snd (1)sw (1)syc (1)urd (1)xmr (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)900,000 (1)5,000,000 (1)6,000,000 (1)7,100,000 (1)8,800,000 (1)13,800,000 (1)16,000,000 (1)24,000,000 (1)29,000,000 (1)37,000,000 (1)51,000,000 (1)52,000,000 (1)60,000,000 (1)83,000,000 (1)90,000,000 (1)94,000,000 (1)118,000,000 (1)119,000,000 (1)246,000,000 (1)274,000,000 (1)StatusAllExtinct (5)Liturgical / Learned Use Only (2)Living (20)ToneAllNot Tonal (8)Tonal (1)Word OrderAllOther (2)SOV (8)SVO (5)VSO (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareArabicLanguage(s) Written1 entryAvestanLanguage(s) Written1 entryAzerbaijaniLanguage(s) Written1 entryBalochiLanguage(s) Written1 entryBerber LanguagesLanguage(s) Written1 entryEgyptian ArabicLanguage(s) Written1 entryHausaLanguage(s) Written1 entryHebrewLanguage(s) Written2 entriesIranian PersianLanguage(s) Written1 entryKashmiriLanguage(s) Written1 entryKurdishLanguage(s) Written1 entryLevantine ArabicLanguage(s) Written1 entryMalayLanguage(s) Written1 entryMeroiticLanguage(s) Written1 entryMiddle PersianLanguage(s) Written2 entriesMoabite languageLanguage(s) Written1 entryOld UyghurLanguage(s) Written4 entriesOttoman TurkishLanguage(s) Written1 entryPashtoLanguage(s) Written1 entrySindhiLanguage(s) Written1 entrySogdianLanguage(s) Written3 entriesSudanese ArabicLanguage(s) Written1 entrySwahiliLanguage(s) Written1 entrySyriacLanguage(s) Written1 entryTamasheq languageLanguage(s) Written1 entryUrduLanguage(s) Written1 entryWestern PunjabiLanguage(s) Written1 entryYiddishLanguage(s) Written1 entryZarmaLanguage(s) Written1 entrySources1. Wikipedia: AlphabetWikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)Quote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)In the Middle Bronze Age, an apparently alphabetic system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appeared in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula c. 1840 BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.