यहाँ विश्व की 'लेखन पद्धतियों' या लिपियों की वर्गीकृत सूची दी गई है। यह वर्गीकरण लिपियों के किसी विशेष गुण के आधार पर किया गया है जो उनकोअन्य लिपियों से अलग करता है।
यह सम्पूर्ण पृष्ठ या इसके कुछ अनुभाग हिन्दी के अतिरिक्त अन्य भाषा(ओं) में भी लिखे गए हैं। आप इनका अनुवाद करके विकिपीडिया की सहायता कर सकते हैं।
पहले लिपि का नाम दिया गया है, इसके बाद उस लिपि में लिखी जाने वाली भाषाओं के नाम कोष्टक में दिए गए हैं।
Aztec–Nahuatl– Although some proper nouns have phonetic components.[1]
Mixtec–Mixtec
Dongba–Naxi– Although this is often supplemented with syllabic Geba script.
Ersu Shābā – Ersu
Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing–Míkmaq– Does have phonetic components, however.
Nsibidi–Ekoi, Efik/Ibibio, Igbo
Testerian – used for missionary work in Mexico
Other Mesoamerican writing systems with the exception of Maya Hieroglyphs.
There are also symbol systems used to represent things other than language, or to represent constructed languages. Some of these are
Blissymbols – A constructed ideographic script used primarily in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
iConji – A constructed ideographic script used primarily in social networking
Isotype (picture language)
Sona language
A wide variety of notations
Linear B and Asemic writing also incorporate ideograms.
व्यंजन-आधारित शब्द-चिह्नात्मक लिपियाँ
Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic– writing systems of Ancient Egypt
Egyptian hieroglyphs
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: A-L
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z
अक्षरधारित शब्दचिह्नात्मक लिपियाँ
Anatolian hieroglyphs–Luwian
Cuneiform–Sumerian, Akkadian, other Semitic languages, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, and Urartian
Chinese characters (Hanzi)–Chinese, Japanese (called Kanji), Korean (called Hanja), Vietnamese (called Han tu, obsolete)
Jurchen script–Jurchen
Khitan large script–Khitan
Tangut script–Tangut
Zhuang script–Zhuang
Chữ Nôm–Vietnamese (for vernacular Vietnamese, now obsolete)
Eghap (or Bagam) script
Mayan–Chorti, Yucatec, and other Classic Maya languages
Yi (classical)– various Yi/Lolo languages
Shui script–Shui language
In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. (Note that the 19th century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather than true syllabaries.)
Afaka–Ndyuka
Alaska script–Central Yup'ik
Cherokee–Cherokee
Cypriot–Mycenean Greek
Geba–Naxi
Kana–Japanese**Hiragana–
Katakana–
Man'yōgana
Kikakui – Mende
Kpelle–Kpelle
Linear B–Mycenean Greek
Nü Shu–Chinese
Vai–Vai
Woleaian–Woleaian (a likely syllabary)
Yi (modern)– various Yi/Lolo languages
अर्ध-अक्षरात्मक लिपियाँ (अंशतः अक्षरात्मक तथा अंशतः वर्णात्मक
Paleohispanic semi-sillabaries–Paleohispanic languages
Tartessian or Southwestern script–Tartessian or Southwestern language
Southeastern Iberian script–Iberian language
Northeastern Iberian script–Iberian language
Celtiberian script–Celtiberian language
Old Persian Cuneiform–Old Persian
Zhuyin fuhao– phonetic script for Chinese languages, and principal script for several Formosan languages.
Eskayan–Bohol, Philippines (a syllabary apparently based on an alphabet; some alphabetic characteristics remain)
Bamum script–Bamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the gaps)
अबजाद (Abjads)
An abjad is a segmental script containing symbols for consonants only, or where vowels are optionally written with diacritics ("pointing") or only written word-initially.
Aramaic
Arabic–Arabic, Azeri, Punjabi, Baluchi, Kashmiri, Pashto, Persian, Kurdish (vowels obligatory), Sindhi, Uighur (vowels obligatory), Urdu, and the languages of many other peoples of the Near East
Hebrew Square Script–Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages
Jawi – Arabic, Malay
Manichaean script
Nabataean– the Nabataeans of Petra
Pahlavi script–Middle Persian
Parthian
Psalter
Phoenician–Phoenician and other Canaanite languages
Proto-Canaanite
Sabaean
South Arabian– Sabaic, Qatabanic, Himyaritic, and Hadhramautic
Sogdian
Samaritan (Old Hebrew)–Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew
Syriac–Syriac
Tifinagh–Tuareg
Ugaritic–Ugaritic, Hurrian
शुद्ध वर्णात्मक लिपियाँ
A true alphabet contains separate letters (not diacritic marks) for both consonants and vowels.
रैखिक गैरलक्षणात्मक वर्ण लिपियाँ
Map of the writing systems in Europe.
Linear alphabets are composed of lines on a surface, such as ink on paper.
Cyrillic–Eastern Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian), eastern South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian), the other languages of Russia, Kazakh language, Kyrgyz language, Tajik language, Mongolian language. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are changing to the Latin alphabet but still have considerable use of Cyrillic. See Languages using Cyrillic.
Latin aka Roman– originally Latin language; most current western and central European languages, Turkic languages, sub-Saharan African languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, languages of maritime Southeast Asia and languages of Oceania use developments of it. Languages using a non-Latin writing system are generally also equipped with Romanization for transliteration or secondary use.
Old Hungarian (in Hungarian magyar rovásírás or székely-magyar rovásírás)–Hungarian
Old Italic– a family of connected alphabets for the Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Messapian, South Picene, Raetic, Venetic, Lepontic, Camunic languages
Old Permic (also called Abur)–Komi
Old Turkic–Turkic
Old Uyghur alphabet–Uyghur
Osmanya–Somali
Runic alphabet–Germanic languages
Ol Cemet'–Santali
Tai Lue–Lue
Vah–Bassa
Zaghawa–Zaghawa
लक्षणात्मक रैखिक वर्णात्मक लिपियाँ (Featural linear alphabets)
A featural script has elements that indicate the components of articulation, such as bilabial consonants, fricatives, or back vowels. Scripts differ in how many features they indicate.
Gregg Shorthand
Hangul–Korean
Shavian alphabet
Tengwar (a fictional script)
Visible Speech (a phonetic script)
Stokoe notation for American Sign Language
SignWriting for sign languages
दिग्दर्शी वर्णात्मक (Manual alphabets)
Manual alphabets are frequently found as parts of sign languages. They are not used for writing per se, but for spelling out words while signing.
Iranian manual alphabet (an abjad; also used in Egypt)
Israeli manual alphabet (an abjad)
Italian manual alphabet
Korean manual alphabet
Latin American manual alphabets
Polish manual alphabet
Portuguese manual alphabet
Romanian manual alphabet
Russian manual alphabet (also used in Bulgaria and ex-Soviet states)
Spanish manual alphabet (Madrid)
Swedish manual alphabet
Yugoslav manual alphabet
अन्य अरैखिक वर्ण (Other non-linear alphabets)
These are other alphabets composed of something other than lines on a surface.
Braille (Unified)– an embossed alphabet for the visually impaired, used with some extra letters to transcribe the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, as well as Chinese
Braille (Korean)
Braille (American) (defunct)
New York Point– a defunct alternative to Braille
International maritime signal flags (both alphabetic and ideographic)
Morse code (International)– a trinary code of dashes, dots, and silence, whether transmitted by electricity, light, or sound) representing characters in the Latin alphabet.
American Morse code (defunct)
Optical telegraphy (defunct)
Flag semaphore– (made by moving hand-held flags)
आबूगीदा (Abugidas)
इन्हें वर्णाक्षरी (अल्फासिलैबरी) भी कहते हैं। ये 'खण्डात्मक' (segmental) लिपियाँ है जिनमें स्वर चिह्नों को दर्शाने के लिए व्यंजन पर कोई डायाक्रिटिकल चिह्न लगाया जाता है या कोई अन्य परिवर्तन/परिवर्धन कर दिया जाता है। भारत तथा दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया की प्रायः सभी लिपियाँ इसी श्रेणी में आती हैं। ये सभी ऐतिहासिक रूप से ब्राह्मी परिवार की हैं।
Tirahutā / Tirhutā {syn. Vaidehī lipi / Mithilākshara } used to write Maithili
Tocharian
Varang Kshiti–Ho
अन्य आबूगीदा लिपियाँ
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics–Cree syllabics (for Cree), Inuktitut syllabics (for Inuktitut), and other variants for Ojibwe, Carrier, Blackfoot, and other languages of Canada
Asemic writing is generally meaningless, though it sometimes contains ideograms or pictograms.
ध्वन्यात्मक वर्णमाला वाली लियियाँ (Phonetic alphabets)
This section lists alphabets used to transcribe phonetic or phonemic sound; not to be confused with spelling alphabets like the ICAO spelling alphabet.
