Syllabary

10 scripts

Used by the Yi people of southwest China. Originally a logographic system with over 8,000 ...

Invented by Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith who could not read any language. Has 85 chara...

An indigenous syllabic script invented in Liberia. Has over 200 characters. One of several...

The oldest known form of Greek writing. Deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, an architec...

A simplified cuneiform created for the royal inscriptions of Darius I. About 40 signs, far...

A script created and used exclusively by women of Jiangyong county in Hunan. Passed from m...

The official phonetic alphabet of China, also called Zhuyin. 37 symbols derived from Chine...

A syllabic script for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. Invented by Mohamed Turay around...

The flowing cursive syllabary of Japanese, developed from cursive forms of Chinese charact...

The angular syllabary of Japanese, developed by monks as shorthand pronunciation marks bes...