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Script categories

On this page you find the scripts classified according to how they were developed and what other scripts they are related to. The classification here has less to do with how the scripts work than with who developed it when, why, and what other scripts they are based on.



Northern Linear
Phoenician script
Punic script
Samaritan script
South Iberian
Tifinagh
Ugaritic
Southern semitic script family
Amharic script
Old North Arabic scripts
Old South Arabian scripts
Southern Linear
Sinitic scripts
Chinese script
Chu-nôm
Cuan script
Hangul
Hiragana
Jurchin script
Katakana
Kitan large script
Kitan small script
Man'yoogana
Nushu
Xi Xia
Phonetic scripts
Dania
Visible Speech
Shorthand
Duployé shorthand
Pitt's shorthand


Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian.