Abjad

13 scripts

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

Written right to left. 22 consonant letters with no distinct vowel letters in everyday use...

Essentially the Persian variant of the Arabic script. Written right to left. Has 38 letter...

A modified version of Arabic script with 4 additional letters for Persian sounds. Written ...

The ancestor of almost all alphabetic writing systems in use today. Had 22 consonant lette...

The administrative script of the Persian Empire. Ancestor of both Hebrew and Arabic script...

A cuneiform alphabet from the city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast. Only 30 signs, each pres...

The everyday script of late Egypt, from a Greek word meaning popular. Evolved from hierati...

The monumental script of the kingdom of Saba, biblical Sheba, in ancient Yemen. A member o...

The script of the Nabataeans, traders who carved the city of Petra from rose red rock. Dev...

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...

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