Home›Scripts›Script Status›Living (in Current Use)Browse ByLiving (in Current Use)Script status records how actively a writing system is still used today, from thriving to purely historical. Wikipedia notes the Latin script "is the most widely adopted writing system in the world," a status few scripts in history have ever come close to. This dimension separates scripts still in daily use from those kept only for scholarship.Living (in Current Use)SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Take a Related QuizLiving (in Current Use)Filter Results34 entriesScript TypeAllAbjad (2)Abugida (17)Alphabet (10)Logographic (1)Syllabary (3)DirectionalityAllLeft to right (19)Right to left (3)Script Family (Lineage)AllAncient South Arabian Script (1)Arabic Script (1)Aramaic Alphabet (2)Brahmi (14)Greek Script (2)Han Script (2)Javanese Script (1)Khmer Script (1)Libyco-Berber Alphabet (1)Old Italic Script (1)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Phoenician Script (1)Language(s) WrittenAllAkan (1)Albanian (1)Amharic (1)Ancient Greek (1)Arabic (1)Armenian (1)Assamese (1)Aymara (1)Azerbaijani (2)Balinese (1)Balochi (1)Bambara (1)Basque (1)Belarusian (1)Bengali (1)Berber Languages (1)Bhojpuri (1)Bosnian (1)Bulgarian (1)Burmese (1)Catalan (1)Cebuano (1)Cherokee (1)Chichewa (1)Classical Chinese (1)Croatian (1)Czech (1)Danish (1)Dutch (1)Egyptian Arabic (1)Enga (1)English (1)Estonian (1)Evenki (1)Ewe (1)Faroese (1)Fijian (1)Finnish (1)Fon (1)French (1)Fula (1)Ge'ez (1)Georgian (1)German (1)Greek (1)Greenlandic (1)Guarani (1)Gujarati (1)Haitian Creole (1)Hakka Chinese (1)Hausa (2)Hawaiian (1)Hebrew (1)Hiligaynon (1)Hindi (1)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Igbo (1)Ilocano (1)Indonesian (1)Inuktitut (1)Iranian Persian (1)Irish (1)Italian (1)Japanese (3)Javanese (1)Kannada (1)Kashmiri (2)Kazakh (1)Khmer (1)Khoekhoe (1)Kinyarwanda (1)Kirundi (1)Konkani (1)Korean (1)Kurdish (2)Kyrgyz (1)Lao (1)Latin (1)Latvian (1)Levantine Arabic (2)Lithuanian (1)Luxembourgish (1)Macedonian (1)Malagasy (1)Malay (2)Malayalam (1)Maldivian (1)Maltese (1)Mandarin Chinese (2)Maori (1)Marathi (1)Mongolian (2)Nahuatl (1)Navajo (1)Nepali (1)Nigerian Pidgin (1)Norwegian (1)Odia (1)Old Church Slavonic (1)Old English (1)Old Norse (1)Oromo (1)Pashto (1)Polish (1)Portuguese (1)Quechua (1)Romani (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Samoan (1)Sanskrit (1)Scottish Gaelic (1)Serbian (2)Sesotho (1)Shona (1)Sindhi (2)Sinhala (1)Slovak (1)Slovenian (1)Somali (1)Southern Min (1)Spanish (1)Sudanese Arabic (1)Sundanese (1)Swahili (2)Swedish (1)Tagalog (1)Tajik (1)Tamil (1)Telugu (1)Thai (1)Tibetan (1)Tigrinya (1)Tongan (1)Tswana (1)Turkish (1)Turkmen (1)Ukrainian (1)Urdu (1)Uzbek (2)Vietnamese (1)Waray (1)Welsh (1)Western Desert Language (1)Western Punjabi (1)Wolof (1)Wu Chinese (1)Xhosa (1)Yoruba (1)Yue Chinese (1)Zarma (2)Zulu (1)Origin Period Start YearAll-1250 (1)-800 (3)-700 (1)-600 (2)-300 (3)100 (1)400 (1)405 (1)430 (1)450 (1)611 (1)620 (1)830 (1)850 (1)893 (1)1000 (2)1035 (1)1100 (1)1200 (2)1292 (1)1350 (1)1443 (1)1592 (1)1601 (1)1821 (1)1918 (1)1949 (1)InfluencedAllArmenian Alphabet (1)Cherokee Syllabary (1)Georgian Script (1)Han Script (1)Hangul (1)Ogham (1)Region of OriginAllArmenia (1)Bali (1)Bulgaria (1)China (1)Eritrea (1)Ethiopia (1)Indonesia (2)Japan (2)Maldives (1)Mongolia (1)Thailand (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)West Africa (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 34Arabic ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Armenian AlphabetLiving (in Current Use)Balinese ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Bengali-Assamese ScriptLiving (in Current Use)BopomofoLiving (in Current Use)Burmese ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Cherokee SyllabaryLiving (in Current Use)Cyrillic ScriptLiving (in Current Use)DevanagariLiving (in Current Use)Ge'ez ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Georgian ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Greek ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Gujarati ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Han ScriptLiving (in Current Use)HangulLiving (in Current Use)Hebrew Square ScriptLiving (in Current Use)HiraganaLiving (in Current Use)Javanese ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Kannada ScriptLiving (in Current Use)KatakanaLiving (in Current Use)Khmer ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Lao ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Latin ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Malayalam ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Mongolian ScriptLiving (in Current Use)N'KoLiving (in Current Use)Odia ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Sinhala ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Tamil ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Telugu ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Thaana ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Thai ScriptLiving (in Current Use)Tibetan ScriptLiving (in Current Use)TifinaghLiving (in Current Use)SourcesWorld History Encyclopediatier 2World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia)Contains: CuneiformContains: Egyptian HieroglyphsContains: Maya ScriptContains: Linear AContains: Linear BContains: BrahmiView the SourceOmniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languagestier 2Contains: Hebrew Square ScriptContains: RongorongoContains: Glagolitic AlphabetContains: HiraganaContains: KatakanaContains: Ge'ez ScriptView the SourceCherokee Phoenixtier 1Cherokee NationContains: Cherokee SyllabaryView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. 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