All Scripts

Writing systems used to record a language in visible or tactile form, independent of any one language that uses them: a script such as Latin Script or Arabic Script may write many unrelated languages, and a language may switch scripts over its history. Grouped below into six subcategories by structural type, alphabet, abjad, abugida, syllabary, logo-syllabic and logographic, per Peter T. Daniels and William Bright's standard typology in The World's Writing Systems. Does not belong here: a language itself, tracked separately under Languages, or a specific document or inscription written in a script, which belongs under Sources.