{"id":17285,"date":"2018-12-27T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2018-12-27T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:46:33","slug":"scripts-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17285","title":{"rendered":"Scripts in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how many alphabets and other writing systems are used regularly?<\/p>\n<p>I show this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/index.htm\">writing system indices<\/a> on Omniglot, although it isn&#8217;t always easy for less well-known writing systems to be sure how much they are used.<\/p>\n<p>Also, how many different writing systems can you recognise?<\/p>\n<p>This video explains how to recognise all the writing systems in regular use:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4n0kmQ_jCOY\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It covers the following scripts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alphabets<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/latin.htm\">Latin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/cyrillic.htm\">Cyrillic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/greek.htm\">Greek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/armenian.htm\">Armenian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/georgian.htm\">Georgian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/mongolian.htm\">Mongolian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abjads<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/arabic.htm\">Arabic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/hebrew.htm\">Hebrew<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abugidas<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/bengali.htm\">Bengali<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/devanagari.htm\">Devanagari<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/gujarati.htm\">Gujarati<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/punjabi.htm\">Gurmukhi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/tibetan.htm\">Tibetan<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/oriya.htm\">Odia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/telugu.htm\">Telugu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kannada.htm\">Kannada<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/malayalam.htm\">Malayalam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/sinhala.htm\">Sinhala<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/burmese.htm\">Burmese<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/khmer.htm\">Khmer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/lao.htm\">Lao<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/thai.htm\">Thai<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/thaana.htm\">Thaana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>East-Asian scripts<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/chinese\/index.htm\">Chinese<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/japanese.htm\">Japanese<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/korean.htm\">Korean<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rare scripts<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/tifinagh.htm\">Tifinagh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/nko.htm\">N&#8217;Ko<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/samaritan.htm\">Samaritan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/syriac.htm\">Syriac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/inuktitut.htm\">Inuktitut<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/cree.htm\">Cree<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/cherokee.htm\">Cherokee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/yi.htm\">Yi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/santali.htm\">Ol Chiki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/fraser.htm\">Fraser<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/tainua.htm\">Tai Le<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how many alphabets and other writing systems are used regularly? 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