True alphabets List of writing systems
1 true alphabets
1.1 linear nonfeatural alphabets
1.2 featural linear alphabets
1.3 linear alphabets arranged syllabic blocks
1.4 manual alphabets
1.5 other non-linear alphabets
true alphabets
a true alphabet contains separate letters (not diacritic marks) both consonants , vowels.
linear nonfeatural alphabets
writing systems used in countries of europe.
linear alphabets composed of lines on surface, such ink on paper.
adlam – fula
armenian – armenian
avestan alphabet – avestan
beitha kukju – albanian
borama – somali
carian – carian
caucasian albanian alphabet – old udi language
coorgi–cox alphabet – kodava
coptic – egyptian
cyrillic – eastern slavic languages (belarusian, russian, ukrainian), eastern south slavic languages (bulgarian, macedonian, serbian), other languages of russia, kazakh language, kyrgyz language, tajik language, mongolian language. azerbaijani, turkmen, , uzbek officially written in latin (in respective countries) have considerable number of users writing in cyrillic. see languages using cyrillic.
eclectic shorthand
elbasan – albanian
fraser – lisu
gabelsberger shorthand
georgian – georgian , other kartvelian languages
glagolitic – old church slavonic
gothic – gothic
greek – greek
international phonetic alphabet
kaddare – somali
latin aka roman – latin language; current western , central european languages, turkic languages, sub-saharan african languages, indigenous languages of americas, languages of maritime southeast asia , languages of oceania use developments of it. languages using non-latin writing system equipped romanization transliteration or secondary use.
manchu – manchu
mandaic – mandaic dialect of aramaic
mongolian – mongolian
neo-tifinagh – tamazight
n ko – maninka language, bambara, dyula language
ogham (irish pronunciation: [oːm]) – gaelic, britannic, pictish
old hungarian (in hungarian magyar rovásírás or székely-magyar rovásírás) – hungarian
old italic – family of connected alphabets 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
uyghur arabic alphabet – uyghur
vah – bassa
zaghawa – zaghawa
featural linear alphabets
a featural script has elements indicate components of articulation, such bilabial consonants, fricatives, or vowels. scripts differ in how many features indicate.
gregg shorthand
hangul – korean
osage – osage
physioalphabet (a physiological alphabet)
shavian alphabet
tengwar (a fictional script)
visible speech (a phonetic script)
stokoe notation american sign language
signwriting sign languages
isibheqe sohlamvu southern bantu languages
linear alphabets arranged syllabic blocks
hangul – korean
great lakes algonquian syllabics – fox, potawatomi, ho-chunk, ojibwe
isibheqe sohlamvu – southern bantu languages
manual alphabets
manual alphabets found parts of sign languages. not used writing per se, spelling out words while signing.
american manual alphabet (used slight modification in hong kong, malaysia, paraguay, philippines, singapore, taiwan, thailand)
british manual alphabet (used in of commonwealth of nations, such australia , new zealand)
catalan manual alphabet
chilean manual alphabet
chinese manual alphabet
dutch manual alphabet
ethiopian manual alphabet (an abugida)
french manual alphabet
greek manual alphabet
icelandic manual alphabet (also used in denmark)
indian manual alphabet (a true alphabet?; used in devanagari , gujarati areas)
international manual alphabet (used in germany, austria, norway, finland)
iranian manual alphabet (an abjad; 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 , ex-soviet states)
spanish manual alphabet (madrid)
swedish manual alphabet
yugoslav manual alphabet
other non-linear alphabets
these other alphabets composed of other lines on surface.
braille (unified) – embossed alphabet visually impaired, used letters transcribe latin, cyrillic, greek, hebrew, , arabic alphabets, chinese
braille (korean)
braille (american) (defunct)
new york point – defunct alternative braille
international maritime signal flags (both alphabetic , ideographic)
morse code (international) – trinary code of dashes, dots, , silence, whether transmitted electricity, light, or sound) representing characters in latin alphabet.
american morse code (defunct)
optical telegraphy (defunct)
flag semaphore – (made moving hand-held flags)
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