Home›Alphabets›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 Results120 entriesScript TypeAllAlphabet (120)DirectionalityAllBottom-to-top (1)Boustrophedon (2)Left-to-right (117)Right-to-left (4)Top-to-bottom, vertical columns left-to-right (1)Variable (4)Origin Period Start YearAll-800 (3)-700 (99)-300 (2)100 (1)150 (2)400 (1)405 (1)430 (1)701 (1)862 (1)893 (13)1200 (1)1443 (1)1918 (1)1949 (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllGreek Script (111)Latin Script (2)Libyco-Berber Alphabet (2)Old Italic Script (98)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Phoenician Script (2)Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark) (1)Sogdian Script (1)Script StatusAllExtinct (6)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (2)Living (in Current Use) (117)Region of OriginAllArmenia (1)Bulgaria (13)China (1)Ireland (1)Italian Peninsula (2)Mongolia (2)Scandinavia (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)West Africa (1)Unicode StatusAllEncoded (120)InfluencedAllArmenian Alphabet (2)Cherokee Syllabary (98)Cyrillic Script (1)Georgian Script (2)Han Script (1)Ogham (98)Attested From (Year)All1500 BCE (1)800 BCE (1)700 BCE (1)75 BCE (1)300 (1)301 (1)401 (1)405 (1)450 (3)601 (2)683 (1)701 (2)765 (1)800 (3)801 (2)842 (1)863 (1)901 (2)1001 (5)1100 (2)1101 (2)1136 (1)1196 (1)1201 (4)1207 (1)1224 (1)1225 (1)1301 (2)1401 (1)1436 (1)1450 (1)1462 (1)1501 (1)1521 (2)1530 (1)1560 (1)1601 (4)1663 (1)1711 (1)1757 (1)1777 (1)1801 (4)1823 (1)1829 (1)1835 (1)1837 (1)1849 (1)1920 (1)1955 (1)Attested To (Year)All300 BCE (1)50 (1)750 (1)1100 (1)1150 (1)1350 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory I (9)Category II (1)Category III (3)Category IV (30)ISO 639-3 CodeAllaka (1)ang (1)apc (1)aym (1)aze (1)bel (1)ber (1)bg (1)bm (1)bos (1)cat (1)ceb (1)chr (1)chu (1)cmn (1)cop (1)cs (1)cym (1)dan (1)deu (1)ell (1)eng (1)est (1)ett (1)eus (1)ewe (1)fao (1)fij (1)fin (1)fon (1)fra (1)ful (1)gla (1)gle (1)grc (1)gug (1)hat (1)hau (1)haw (1)hil (1)hop (1)hrv (1)hy (1)ibo (1)iku (1)ilo (1)ind (1)isl (1)ita (1)ka (1)kas (1)kaz (1)kin (1)kir (1)ko (1)kur (1)lat (1)lav (1)lit (1)ltz (1)mkd (1)mlg (1)mlt (1)mn (1)mri (1)msa (1)nah (1)nld (1)non (1)nor (1)nya (1)orm (1)pcm (1)pl (1)por (1)que (1)rap (1)rom (1)ron (1)ru (1)run (1)slk (1)slv (1)smo (1)sna (1)som (1)sot (1)spa (1)sqi (1)srp (1)sun (1)sw (1)swe (1)tgk (1)tgl (1)tsn (1)tuk (1)tur (1)ukr (1)uzb (1)Showing the 100 most common of 105 options.Speaker CountAll0 (5)300 (1)1000 (1)2000 (1)6780 (1)7400 (1)24,000 (1)38,000 (1)50,000 (1)57,000 (1)69,000 (1)70,000 (1)71,968 (1)170,000 (1)187,000 (1)200,000 (1)230,000 (1)339,210 (1)390,000 (1)400,000 (1)430,000 (1)538,300 (1)570,000 (1)806,000 (1)900,000 (1)1,100,000 (1)1,200,000 (1)1,500,000 (1)1,700,000 (3)2,300,000 (1)2,500,000 (1)3,100,000 (1)3,600,000 (1)3,760,000 (1)4,000,000 (1)4,100,000 (1)4,320,000 (1)4,600,000 (1)4,750,000 (1)5,000,000 (2)5,094,000 (1)5,100,000 (1)5,300,000 (1)5,500,000 (2)5,600,000 (2)6,000,000 (1)6,500,000 (1)6,800,000 (1)7,000,000 (1)7,100,000 (1)7,200,000 (1)7,500,000 (1)8,000,000 (2)8,200,000 (2)8,700,000 (1)8,900,000 (1)9,100,000 (1)9,600,000 (1)10,000,000 (1)10,500,000 (1)10,700,000 (1)12,000,000 (2)13,000,000 (2)13,500,000 (1)13,800,000 (1)14,000,000 (1)15,000,000 (1)16,000,000 (2)20,000,000 (1)22,000,000 (1)24,000,000 (2)25,000,000 (2)29,000,000 (1)32,000,000 (2)34,000,000 (1)36,000,000 (1)37,000,000 (1)40,000,000 (1)45,500,000 (1)50,000,000 (1)60,000,000 (1)65,000,000 (1)80,000,000 (1)81,000,000 (1)86,000,000 (1)87,000,000 (1)90,000,000 (1)94,000,000 (1)121,000,000 (1)135,000,000 (1)154,000,000 (1)252,000,000 (1)267,000,000 (1)312,000,000 (1)560,000,000 (1)941,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllExtinct (5)Liturgical / Learned Use Only (3)Living (112)ToneAllNot Tonal (34)Tonal (25)Word OrderAllOther (15)SOV (25)SVO (50)VSO (13)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSwahiliLanguage(s) Written1 entrySwedishLanguage(s) Written1 entryTagalogLanguage(s) Written1 entryTajikLanguage(s) Written1 entryTamasheq languageLanguage(s) Written2 entriesTonganLanguage(s) Written1 entryTswanaLanguage(s) Written1 entryTurkishLanguage(s) Written1 entryTurkmenLanguage(s) Written1 entryUkrainianLanguage(s) Written1 entryUzbekLanguage(s) Written2 entriesVietnameseLanguage(s) Written1 entryWarayLanguage(s) Written1 entryWelshLanguage(s) Written1 entryWestern Desert LanguageLanguage(s) Written1 entryWolofLanguage(s) Written1 entryXhosaLanguage(s) Written1 entryYorubaLanguage(s) Written1 entryZarmaLanguage(s) Written1 entryZuluLanguage(s) Written1 entryShowing 101 to 120 of 120, page 3 of 3.← Previous123Sources1. Wikipedia: AlphabetWikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabetsQuote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabetsIn 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.