Home›Alphabets›Script Family (Lineage)Browse ByScript Family (Lineage)Script family groups writing systems by their shared line of descent. Wikipedia describes the Latin script as "based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet," placing it in the same broad family as Greek, Cyrillic and Coptic. This dimension lets a visitor compare scripts that trace back to the same ancestral writing system.FactsScript Family (Lineage)SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1840 BCE 1Script Family (Lineage)Filter Results8 entriesScript TypeAllAlphabet (8)DirectionalityAllBoustrophedon (1)Left-to-right (5)Right-to-left (2)Top-to-bottom, vertical columns left-to-right (1)Variable (2)Origin Period Start YearAll-800 (2)-700 (2)-300 (1)100 (1)150 (1)701 (1)862 (1)893 (1)1200 (1)Script StatusAllExtinct (4)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (1)Living (in Current Use) (5)Language(s) WrittenAllAkan (2)Albanian (2)Ancient Greek (1)Aymara (2)Azerbaijani (2)Basque (2)Bosnian (2)Catalan (2)Cebuano (2)Cherokee (2)Chichewa (2)Croatian (2)Czech (2)Danish (2)Dinka language (2)Dutch (2)Enga (2)English (2)Estonian (2)Ewe (2)Faroese (2)Fijian (2)Finnish (2)Fon (2)French (2)Fula (2)German (2)Greenlandic (2)Guarani (2)Haitian Creole (2)Hausa (2)Hawaiian (2)Hiligaynon (2)Hopi (2)Hungarian (2)Icelandic (2)Igbo (2)Ilocano (2)Indonesian (2)Inuktitut (2)Irish (2)Italian (2)Kashmiri (2)Khoekhoe (2)Kikuyu language (2)Kinyarwanda (2)Kirundi (2)Kurdish (2)Latin (2)Latvian (2)Levantine Arabic (2)Lithuanian (2)Luxembourgish (2)Malagasy (2)Malay (2)Maltese (2)Maori (2)Mongolian (2)Nahuatl (2)Navajo (2)Nigerian Pidgin (2)Norwegian (2)Nuer language (2)Old English (3)Old Norse (4)Oromo (2)Polish (2)Portuguese (2)Quechua (2)Rapa Nui (2)Romani (2)Romanian (2)Samoan (2)Scottish Gaelic (2)Serbian (2)Sesotho (2)Shona (2)Slovak (2)Slovenian (2)Somali (2)Spanish (2)Sundanese (2)Swahili (2)Swedish (2)Tagalog (2)Tamasheq language (3)Tongan (2)Tswana (2)Turkish (2)Turkmen (2)Uzbek (2)Vietnamese (2)Waray (2)Welsh (2)Western Desert Language (2)Wolof (2)Xhosa (2)Yoruba (2)Zarma (2)Zulu (2)Showing the 100 most common of 115 options.Region of OriginAllBulgaria (1)Italian Peninsula (1)Mongolia (2)Scandinavia (1)Unicode StatusAllEncoded (8)InfluencedAllArmenian Alphabet (1)Cherokee Syllabary (2)Cyrillic Script (1)Georgian Script (1)Ogham (2)Number of CharactersAll24 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareGreek ScriptScript Family (Lineage)5 entriesLatin ScriptScript Family (Lineage)1 entryLibyco-Berber AlphabetScript Family (Lineage)1 entryOld Italic ScriptScript Family (Lineage)1 entryOld Uyghur AlphabetScript Family (Lineage)1 entryPhoenician ScriptScript Family (Lineage)1 entryRunic Alphabet (Elder Futhark)Script Family (Lineage)1 entrySogdian ScriptScript Family (Lineage)1 entrySources1. 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.