List of languages by writing system

Arabic Script

• Arabic
• Azeri (Iran)
• Balochi
• Berber
• Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script)
• Buginese (until the 20th century)
• Fulani (on occasion)
• Hausa (on occasion)
• Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
• Javanese (on occasion)
• Kanuri (on occasion)
• Kashmiri
• Kazakh in China
• Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
• Malagasy (until the 19th century)
• Malay (14th - 17th century)
• Mazanderani
• Mozarabic (now extinct)
• Ottoman Turkish
• Pashto
• Persian
• Punjabi (Pakistan)
• Saraiki
• Sindhi
• Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a. Aljamiado)
• Sundanese (until the 20th century)
• Swahili (on occasion)
• Tajik (on occasion)
• Tausug
• Urdu
• Uyghur
• Wolio (until the 20th century)
• Yoruba (rarely see Ajami script)

Many languages of Russia and Central Asia before replacement with Latin and later Cyrillic

• Bashkir
• Belarusian (on occasion)
• Kazakh
• Kyrgyz
• Tatar
• Uzbek

Armenian script

• Armenian

Borama script

• Somali

Brahmic family and derivatives

Devanagari

• Sanskrit
• Hindi
• Marathi
• Maithili
• Bhojpuri
• Nepali
• Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
• Konkani
• Kashmiri
• Bodo
• Dogri
• Gondi,Adilabad
• Gondi, Aheri
• Andh
• Angika
• Asuri
• Athpariya
• Awadhi
• Bagheli
• Bagri
• Bahing
• Bantawa
• Baram
• Bateri
• Belhariya
• Bhadrawahi
• Bharia
• Bhatri

Assamese/Bengali

• Assamese
• Bengali
• Bishnupriya Manipuri
• Garo
• Kokborok
• Meitei
• Mundari
• Sanskrit

Balinese script

• Balinese language (on occassion)
• Sasak (on occassion)

Baybayin script

• Ilokano (formerly)
• Kapampangan (formerly)
• Pangasinan (formerly)
• Tagalog (formerly)
• Bikol language (formerly)
• Visayan languages (formerly)

Buhid script

• Buhid

Burmese script

• Burmese
• Karen
  • Geba Karen
  • Pa-O
  • Pwo Karen
  • S'gaw Karen
• Mon
• Rumai Palaung
• Shan

Gujarati script

• Gujarati

Gurmukhi script

• Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)

Hanunó'o script

• Hanunó'o

Javanese script (Hanacaraka)

• Javanese (second writing system)
• Sundanese (formerly)
• Madurese (second writing system)
• Tenggerese (second writing system)
• Cirebonese (second writing system)

Kannada script

• Kannada
• Konkani
• Tulu

Khmer script

• Khmer

Lao script

• Lao

Lepcha script

• Lepcha

Limbu script

• Limbu

Lontara script (Buginese)

• Buginese (formerly)
• Makassarese (formerly)
• Mandar (formerly)
• Sumbawan (formerly)
• Bimanese (formerly)
• Endenese (formerly)

Malayalam script

• Malayalam
• Konkani

Oriya script

• Oriya

'Phags-pa script

• Chinese (formerly)
• Mongolian (formerly)
• Sanskrit (formerly)
• Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
• Uyghur (formerly)

Sinhala script

• Sinhala

Tagbanwa script

• Languages of Palawan

Tamil script

• Tamil

Telugu script

• Telugu

Thaana script

• Dhivehi

Thai script

• Thai

Tibetan script

• Tibetan
• Dzongkha
• Ladakhi
• Zhang-Zhung (extinct)

Canadian Aboriginal script

• Blackfoot
• Chipewyan
• Cree
• Dakelh
• Inuktitut
• Ojibwe
• Sekani
• Slavey
• Tasttine
• Tłįchǫ

Cherokee script

• Cherokee

Constructed Script family in the USCR and Omniglot

Aiha script

• Kesh

Argpal

• Silarg

Cirth

• Dwarfish
• English (formerly)
• Sindarin (formerly)

Ewellic

• English (formerly)

Klingon

• Klingon (also Latin script)

Tengwar

• Sindarin

Tolianem

• Dizalla
• Ferisnosh
• Razchijian

Coptic alphabet

• Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)

Cyrillic script

Main article: Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet

• Abkhaz
• Belarusian
• Bosnian (also Latin script and Arebica)
• Bulgarian
• Bashkir
• Chuvash
• Dungan
• Interslavic (also Latin script)
• Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
• Kazakh
• Komi
• Kyrgyz
• Macedonian
• Mongolian
• Ossetic
• Russian
• Rusyn
• Serbian (also Latin script)
• Tajiki
• Tatar
• Tuvan
• Udmurt
• Ukrainian

Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)

• Croatian (formerly)
• Bosnian (formerly)

Saba (Ge ’ez) script (Ethiopic)

• Amharic
• Ge'ez
• Tigrinya

Georgian script

• Georgian
• Laz (sometimes Latin)
• Mingrelian
• Svan

Glagolitic alphabet

• Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
• Croatian (formerly)

Gothic alphabet

• Gothic (extinct)

Greek script

• Bactrian (extinct)
• Greek
• Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
• Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)

Chinese characters and derivatives

• Chinese
  • Guanhua (Mandarin)
  • Wu which includes Shanghainese
  • Yue (Cantonese)
  • Min which includes Taiwanese
  • Xiang
  • Hakka
  • Gan
  • Jin from Mandarin
  • Huizhou from Wu
  • Ping partly from Cantonese
• Minority languages in China
  • Dong
  • Bai (obsolete)
  • Miao (obsolete)
  • Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete)
• Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
• Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts and newspapers)
• Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use virtually extinct)
• Extinct languages
  • Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
  • Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
  • Tangut, written in Tangut script

Hangul

• Korean

Hebrew script

• Aramaic (and other writing systems)
• Bukhori
• Hebrew
• Hulaula
• Judeo-Berber
• Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
• Judeo-Moroccan
• Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
• Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
• Judeo-Portuguese
• Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems)
• Judeo-Yemenite
• Juhuri
• Lishan Didan
• Lishana Deni
• Lishanid Noshan
• Shuadit
• Yiddish
• Zarphatic

Jurchen script

• Jurchen (extinct)

Kaddare script

• Somali

Kana

• Japanese (plus kanji)
• Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone
• Okinawan Mostly for Hiragana and some for Katakana

Khitan scripts

• Khitan (extinct)

Latin script

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Aragonese
• Asturian
• Aymara
• Azeri
• Basque
• Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic)
• Bislama
• Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin)
• Bosnian ( also Cyrillic script and Arebica )
• Breton
• Catalan
• Cebuano
• Chamorro
• Cornish
• Corsican
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Faroese
• Fijian
• Filipino (formerly used the Baybayin)
• Finnish
• French
• Frisian
• Friulian
• Fula (Pulaar)
• Gaelic (Scottish)
• Galician
• Ganda
• German
• Gikuyu
• Guaraní
• Haitian
• Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script)
• Hawai'ian
• Hiri Motu
• Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000)
• Icelandic
• Ido
• Igbo
• Ilocano (formerly used the Baybayin)
• Indonesian
• Interlingua
• Innu-aimun
• Irish
• Italian
• Javanese - Also uses an alphabet called Hanacaraka in certain areas
• Judeo-Spanish - Also uses other scripts
• Kinyarwanda
• Kirundi
• Kongo
• Kurdish (Kurmanji)
• Latin
• Latvian
• Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
• Leonese
• Lingala
• Lithuanian
• Lombard
• Luxembourgish
• Maori
• Malagasy
• Malay
• Maltese
• Manx
• Marshallese
• Mingrelia
• Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
• Montenegrin
• Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
• Nauruan
• Navaho or Navajo
• Ndebele
• Norwegian
• Occitan
• Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
• Palauan
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Quechua
• Romanian (formerly used a Cyrillic alphabet)
• Romansh
• Samoan
• Scots
• Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
• Seychellois creole
• Shona
• Slovak
• Slovene
• Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and Osmanya script)
• Sotho (Northern)
• Sotho (Southern)
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Swati
• Tagalog (formerly used the Baybayin)
• Tahitian
• Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
• Tetum
• Tok Pisin
• Tongan
• Tsonga
• Tswana
• Turkish (formerly used the Arabic script)
• Turoyo (new Latin alphabet, originally Syriac alphabet)
• Uzbek (official script, formerly used Cyrillic)
• Venda
• Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
• Volapük
• Võro
• Walloon
• Welsh
• Wolof
• Xhosa
• Yoruba
• Zulu
• Zazaki

Mayan script

• Mayan languages (formerly)

Mongolian and related scripts

Old Uyghur alphabet

• Uyghur (formerly)

Mongolian script

• Mongolian

Manchu script

• Manchu
• Xibe

Munda scripts

Sorang Sompeng

• Sora

Ol Chiki

• Santali

Warang Citi

• Ho

N'Ko script

• N'ko

Naxi script

• Naxi (obsolete)

Nsibidi

• Ekoi
• Igbo
• Ibibio

Ogham

• Primitive Irish
• Pictish

Osmanya script

• Somali

Pahawh Hmong

• Hmong

Runic script

• Proto-Norse inscriptions
• Old Norse (also Latin script)
• Old Danish (also Latin script)
• Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin script)
• Old Frisian (also Latin script)

Old Hungarian script

• Hungarian (also Latin script)

Orkhon script

• Göktürk

Syriac script

• Arabic (see Garshuni)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
• Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
• Hertevin
• Koy Sanjaq Surat
• Senaya
• Syriac
• Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script)

Tifinagh

• Amazigh (Morocco)
• Tuareg

Yi script

• Yi