Classical

13 scripts

Written right to left. Used for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and over a dozen other lang...

Combines three scripts: kanji (Chinese characters), hiragana (phonetic for native words), ...

Three distinct historical scripts: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri, and Mkhedruli. Mkhedruli has 33 ...

Invented by Mesrop Mashtots, a monk and linguist. Has 36 original letters, later expanded ...

The final stage of the ancient Egyptian writing tradition. Uses Greek letters with 7 addit...

An early medieval alphabet used for primitive Irish. Written along the edge of a stone fro...

Used by Germanic peoples before adopting Latin script. The Elder Futhark had 24 runes. The...

A graceful Aramaic script that became the literary vehicle of Eastern Christianity. Flouri...

The script of Middle Persian under the Sasanian empire. Derived from Aramaic with heavy us...

Created specifically to record the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. Developed f...

The script of the Silk Road merchants of Sogdiana, centered on Samarkand. Descended from S...

The refined descendant of Brahmi used across the Gupta empire, a golden age of Sanskrit li...

Invented by Bishop Wulfila to translate the Bible into the Gothic language. Largely based ...