Home›Alphabets›Script Type›AlphabetBrowse ByAlphabetScript type sorts writing systems by how their symbols encode language, such as an alphabet, a syllabary or a logography. Wikipedia notes that "alphabets use graphemes called letters that generally correspond to spoken phonemes," a different mechanism from a syllabary's syllable signs or a logography's whole-word symbols. This dimension groups scripts that encode language the same structural way.FactsAlphabetSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1840 BCE 1AlphabetFilter Results16 entriesDirectionalityAllbottom-to-top, along a central stemline (1)Left to right (5)right-to-left (1)Vertical, top to bottom, with lines running left to right. (1)Written horizontally, left to right. (2)Written left to right. (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllCoptic Alphabet (1)Cyrillic Script (1)Glagolitic Alphabet (1)Greek Script (5)Latin Script (3)Libyco-Berber Alphabet (1)Old Italic Script (2)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Phoenician Script (1)Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark) (2)Younger Futhark (1)Language(s) WrittenAllAkan (1)Albanian (1)Ancient Greek (1)Armenian (1)Aymara (1)Azerbaijani (1)Basque (1)Belarusian (1)Berber Languages (1)Bosnian (1)Bulgarian (1)Catalan (1)Cebuano (1)Chichewa (1)Coptic (1)Croatian (1)Czech (1)Danish (1)Dutch (1)Enga (1)English (1)Estonian (1)Etruscan (1)Evenki (1)Ewe (1)Faroese (1)Fijian (1)Finnish (1)Fon (1)French (1)Fula (1)Georgian (1)German (1)Greek (1)Greenlandic (1)Guarani (1)Haitian Creole (1)Hausa (1)Hawaiian (1)Hiligaynon (1)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Igbo (1)Ilocano (1)Indonesian (1)Irish (2)Italian (1)Kashmiri (1)Kazakh (1)Khoekhoe (1)Kinyarwanda (1)Kirundi (1)Korean (1)Kurdish (1)Kyrgyz (1)Latin (2)Latvian (1)Lithuanian (1)Luxembourgish (1)Macedonian (1)Malagasy (1)Malay (1)Maltese (1)Mandarin Chinese (1)Maori (1)Mongolian (2)Nahuatl (1)Navajo (1)Norwegian (1)Old Church Slavonic (2)Old English (2)Old Norse (3)Oromo (1)Polish (1)Portuguese (1)Quechua (1)Romani (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Samoan (1)Scottish Gaelic (1)Serbian (2)Sesotho (1)Shona (1)Slovak (1)Slovenian (1)Somali (1)Spanish (1)Sundanese (1)Swahili (1)Swedish (1)Tagalog (1)Tajik (1)Tongan (1)Tswana (1)Turkmen (1)Ukrainian (1)Uzbek (2)Vietnamese (1)Waray (1)Welsh (1)Western Desert Language (1)Wolof (1)Xhosa (1)Yoruba (1)Zarma (1)Zulu (1)Origin Period Start YearAll-800 (2)-700 (2)-300 (1)100 (1)150 (1)400 (1)405 (1)430 (1)862 (1)893 (1)1200 (1)1443 (1)1918 (1)1949 (1)InfluencedAllArmenian Alphabet (1)Cherokee Syllabary (1)Cyrillic Script (1)Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)Georgian Script (1)Glagolitic Alphabet (1)Greek Script (2)Han Script (2)Latin Script (1)Ogham (1)Script StatusAllLiving (in Current Use) (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 16Armenian AlphabetAlphabetBopomofoAlphabetCoptic AlphabetAlphabetCyrillic ScriptAlphabetGeorgian ScriptAlphabetGlagolitic AlphabetAlphabetGreek ScriptAlphabetHangulAlphabetLatin ScriptAlphabetMongolian ScriptAlphabetN'KoAlphabetOghamAlphabetOld Italic ScriptAlphabetRunic Alphabet (Elder Futhark)AlphabetTifinaghAlphabetYounger FutharkAlphabetSources1. 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.