Home›Scripts›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.AlphabetSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Take a Related QuizAlphabetFilter Results16 entriesDirectionalityAllbottom-to-top, along a central stemline (1)Left to right (5)right-to-left (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllGreek Script (5)Latin Script (1)Libyco-Berber Alphabet (1)Old Italic Script (1)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Phoenician Script (1)Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark) (1)Language(s) WrittenAllAkan (1)Albanian (1)Ancient Greek (1)Armenian (1)Aymara (1)Azerbaijani (1)Bambara (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)Inuktitut (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)Levantine Arabic (1)Lithuanian (1)Luxembourgish (1)Macedonian (1)Malagasy (1)Malay (1)Maltese (1)Mandarin Chinese (1)Maori (1)Mongolian (2)Nahuatl (1)Navajo (1)Nigerian Pidgin (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)Turkish (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)Georgian Script (1)Han Script (1)Ogham (1)Script StatusAllExtinct (4)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (2)Living (in Current Use) (10)Region of OriginAllArmenia (1)Bulgaria (1)China (1)Ireland (1)Italian Peninsula (1)Mongolia (1)Scandinavia (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)West Africa (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 16Armenian AlphabetAlphabetBopomofoAlphabetCoptic AlphabetAlphabetCyrillic ScriptAlphabetGeorgian ScriptAlphabetGlagolitic AlphabetAlphabetGreek ScriptAlphabetHangulAlphabetLatin ScriptAlphabetMongolian ScriptAlphabetN'KoAlphabetOghamAlphabetOld Italic ScriptAlphabetRunic Alphabet (Elder Futhark)AlphabetTifinaghAlphabetYounger FutharkAlphabetSourcesWorld 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. 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.Take a Related QuizThe World's Writing SystemsIncludes a question about Scripts.