This section contains links to the Excel spreadsheets I use to create most of the script charts on this site, and also to script charts in Word and PDF format suitable for downloading and printing.
Cuneiform scripts
Includes: Akkadian, Sumerian, Ugaritic
Old Italic
Includes: Ancient Latin, Etruscan, Faliscan, Messapic, Oscan,
South Picene, Umbrian
Anatolian
Includes: Hittite, Lycian, Lydian
Ancient Mediterranean writing systems
Includes: Cypriot, Linear B
Rovas
Includes: Carpathian Basin Rovas, Khazarian Rovas, Hungarian Rovas
Runic and Rune-like scripts
Includes: Elder Futhark, Danish Futhark, Gothic runes,
Medieval (Latinised) Futhark, Norwegian Futhark and Short-Twig/Rök Runes
Modern Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Syrian Arabic
Arabic - Turkic languages
Includes: Äynu, Crimean Tatar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Arabic - other languages
Includes: Beja, Bosnian, Ganda, Kashmiri, Malay, Mozarabic, Sindhi, Urdu
Iranian languages
Includes: Baluchi, Dari, Kurdish, Pahlavi, Pastho, Persian, Shabaki, Tajik, Wakhi, Yoghnobi, Zazaki
Kabyle (Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh alphabets)
Aramaic
Includes: Early Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic, Aramaic Square script
Hebrew
Includes: Hebrew, Bukhori, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, Samaritan, Karmeli
Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Coptic, Ogham, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Church Slavonic, Cyrillic
Cyrillic - Slavic languages
Includes: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian,
Serbian, Rusyn and Ukrainian
Cyrillic - Romance languages
Includes: Moldovan, Romanian
Cyrillic - Altaic languages
Includes: Altay, Balker, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Even,
Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazak, Khakas, Krymchak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nanai, Nogai, Shor,
Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut
Cyrillic - Finno-Ugric languages
Includes: Erzya, Khanty, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Nenets,
Udmurt and Votic
Cyrillic - other languages
Includes: Chukchi, Dungan, Enets, Itelmen, Ket, Komi, Koryak, Nivkh,
Ossetian, Tajik, Yukaghir
Sámi
Inari Sámi, Kildin Sámi, Lule Sámi, North Sámi,
Pite Sámi, Skolt Sámi, South Sámi, Ter Sámi
Traditional Mongolian (Uighur) Script
Mongolic languages and languages written with the Mongolian script
Includes: Buryat, Evenki, Kalmyk, Mongolian
Caucasian languages (mainly Cyrillic)
Includes: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Archi,
Budukh, Dargwa, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Kabardian, Khwarshi,
Lak, Laz, Lezgian, Mingrelian, Svan, Tabassaran, Tsez, Udi
Latin - Celtic languages
Includes: Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic
Latin - Germanic languages
Includes: Afrikaans, Cimbrian, Danish, Dutch, Elfdalian, English, Faroese,
German, Icelandic, Old Norse, Norwegian, Swedish, Swiss German
Latin - Italic/Romance languages
Includes: Aranese, Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, French, Galician,
Genoese, Italian, Jèrrais, Ladin, Latin, Lombard, Mirandese, Moldovan, Napolitan, Occitan, Piedmontese,
Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish and Walloon
Latin - Slavic languages
Includes: Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Kashubian, Polish, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene,
Upper and Lower Sorbian
Latin - Uralic languages
Includes: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Ingrian, Karelian, Livonian,
Veps, Võro and Votic
Latin - other languages of Europe
Includes: Albanian, Basque, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese and Romany
Latin - Turkic
Includes: Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak,
Kazakh, Khakas, Kumyk, Salar, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek
Latin - languages of Africa
Includes: Afar, Akan, Bambara, Beja, Bemba, Bench, Chichewa, Duala, Ewe, Ewondo, Ga,
Gbe, Harari, Hausa, Herero, Igbo, Kanuri, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Juǀʼhoan, Lingala, Luganda,
Makhuwa, Nama, Northern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nǀuu, Oromo, OshiWambo, Sango, Shona, Somali,
Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tshiluba, Tumbuka, Twi, Venda,
Xhosa, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu
Latin - Nilo-Saharan languages
Includes: Acholi, Dholuo, Dinka, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk
Eskimo-Aleut languages (Latin and Cyrillic)
Includes: Aleut, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Yupik
Latin - indigenous languages of North America
Includes: Abenaki, Alabama, Apache, Arapaho, Cayuga, Cheyenne, Chickasaw,
Chipewyan, Choctaw, Creek, Crow, Dakota, Delaware, Eastern Pomo, Fox, Gwich’in, Haida,
Hän, Klallam, Klamath, Koasati, Kwakiutl, Lakota, Mikasuki, Mikmaq, Mohawk, Montagnais,
Naskapi, Navajo, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Oneida, Otomi, Potawatomi, Saanich, Shawnee,
Tlingit, Tuscarora, Yurok
Latin - indigenous languages of Central America
Includes: Miskito, Seri, Zapotec
Latin - indigenous languages of South America
Includes: Arabela, Amarakaeri, Aymara, Baniwa, Bora, Cofán, Guaraní,
Hixkaryána, Kaingang, Mapuche, Murui Huitoto, Nheengatu, Pirahã, Quechua, Shavante, Tucano, Wayuu,
Záparo
Latin - Uto-Aztecan languages
Includes: Comanche, Hopi, Nahuatl, O'odham, Pipil (Nawat), Shoshone, Yaqui
Mayan languages
Includes: Huasteco, Kaqchikel, Mam, Q'eqchi', Tsotsil, Yucatec
Latin - Austronesian languages
Includes: Ainu, Anutan, Bikol, Cebuano, Chamorro, Drehu, Fijian, Filipino,
Hawaiian, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Kapampangan, Ket, Kiribati, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Marshallese,
Moriori, Niuean, Pangasinian, Raga, Rotokas, Rotuman, Sakao, Samoan, Tagalog, Tahitian,
Tausūg, Tetum, Tokelauan, Tongan,
Tuvaluan, Vietnamese, Waray-Waray, Yapese
Latin - Hmong-Mien languages
Includes: Iu Mien, Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA)
Latin - Tai-Kaidai and Sino-Tibetan languages
Includes: Dong, Tujia, Zhuang
Latin - Formosan languages
Includes: Amis, Atayal
Latin - Papuan languages
Includes: Miriam Mir
Latin - Aboriginal languages of Australia
Includes: Arrernte, Gooniyandi, Gugadja/Kukatja, Kala Lagaw Ya, Murrinh-Patha, Ngiyambaa,
Noongar, Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Yindjibarndi and Yolngu
Latin - Creoles
Includes: Bislama, Cape Verdean Creole, Chavacano, Guadeloupean Creole,
Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Mauritian Creole, Papiamento, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Tok Pisin
Latin - Isolates
Includes: Burushaski, Ket
Latin - International Auxiliary languages and constructed languages
Includes: Esperanto, Folkspraak, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua,
Interlingue/Occidental, Latino sine Flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban,
Novial, Slovio, Toki Pona and Volapük
Alternative versions of the Latin alphabet
Includes: Anglo-Saxon, Fraktur, Irish Uncial and Sütterlin
Other varieties of Chinese
Includes: Gan, Hakka, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew, Xiang
Japanese (Japanese hiragana, katakana, romanji, Ainu and Okinawan)
Korean (Korean, Cia-Cia)
Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit)
Nepal Bhasa/Newari (Ranjana/Devanagari)
Nepali
Ariyaka, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Brahmi, Balinese, Bugis, Burmese, Chakma, Grantha, Gujarati, Kaithi, Kannada, Kayah Li, Kharosthi, Khmer, Kutchi, Javanese, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Maithili, Malayalam, Manchu, Manipuri, Marwari, Modi, Mongolian, Oriya, Pali, Phags-pa, Rajasthani, Re(d)jang, Shan, Sharda, Sinhala, Siraiki, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Sundanese, Sylheti, Tamil Telugu, Thai, Thaana, Tibetan
Other South East Asian scripts
Includes: Buhid, Cham, Fraser, Hanuno'o, Hmong, Pollard Miao, Rejang, Siamese, Tai Dam
Syllabaries of North America
Includes: Blackfoot, Carrier, Cherokee, Chipewyan, Cree, Cypriot, Objibwe
Syllabaries of the Philippines
Includes: Baybayin (Tagalog/Ilocano)
Syllabaries of Africa
Includes: Kpelle, Loma, Mende
Ethiopic (Amharic, Argobba, Awngi, Blin, Chaha, Dizin, Ge'ez, Harari, Inor, Silt'e, Tigre, Tigrinya, Xamtanga)
Berber (Ancient Berber and Neo-Tifinagh)
Syriac
Includes: Estrangelo, Serto, Nestorian
Mandekan
Includes: Arabic, Latin and N'Ko alphabets for Mandekan / Mandinka
Other scripts
Includes: Etruscan, Orkhon/Old Turkic, Phoenician,
Proto-Sinaitic/Canaanite, Sabaean
Phonetic transcription systems
Includes: Dialectal Paleotype, Visible Speech
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Tactile writing systems
Includes: Braille, Braille for Chinese, Moon
Alternative writing systems
Includes: Blissymbolics, Deseret, Graffiti, Quikscript,
Shavian, Unifon
Fictional writing systems
Includes: Ancients Alphabet, Atlantean, Aurek-Besh,
Daedric, Delason, D'Ni, Futurama, Gnommish, Klingon, Kryptonian, Matoran, Tenctonese,
Utopian, Visitor
Magical alphabets
Includes: Alphabet of the Magi, Angelic, Daggers, Enochian,
Malachim, Passing the River and Theban
Tolkien's scripts
Includes: Cirth, Sarati, Tengwar
Scripts of Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne
Includes: Sunúz, Tsolyáni, Yán Koryáni
Your con-scripts
Includes: Aliaric, Ancients, Arabish, Betamaze, Daikan, Delason, Deini,
Dingwiri, Efkolia, Ewellic, Falandril, Flos, High Ƕarian, Irxti, Kanadana, Liron, Lovecraftian, Morda, Nari, Oxidilogi,
Peperklips, Phonogic, Riasu, Shandanese, Sobatha, SpaceKees, Suritanyo, Tciaar, Wedges,
21e
Adaptations of existing alphabets Coptic Arabic, Nihon no Hangul, Porturillic, Renglish (Latin), Renglish (Cyrillic), Romanabic, Urdu Latin
My con-scripts
Includes: Geyinzi, Kanadana and Tengwar for Welsh
Tower of Babel texts
Includes: Kannada, Malayalam, Persian/Farsi