Template:List of writing systems

Types of writing systems

Overview	History of writing Grapheme
Lists	Writing systems undeciphered inventors constructed Languages by writing system / by first written accounts

Numerals

Aramaic
- Hatran
Arabic
- Elifba
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Elymaic
Hebrew
- Ashuri
- Cursive
- Rashi
- Solitreo
Tifinagh
Mandaic
Manichaean
Nabataean
Ancient North Arabian
Pahlavi
- Book
- Inscriptional
- Inscriptional Parthian
- Psalter
Pegon
Phoenician
- Paleo-Hebrew
Pitman shorthand
Proto-Sinaitic
Punic
Samaritan
South Arabian
- Zabur
- Musnad
Sogdian
Syriac
- ʾEsṭrangēlā
- Serṭā
- Maḏnḥāyā
Teeline Shorthand
Ugaritic

Northern

Southern

Others

Bharati
Boyd's syllabic shorthand
Canadian syllabics
- Blackfoot
- Déné syllabics
Dham
Fox I
Geʽez
Gunjala Gondi
Japanese Braille
Sarati
Jenticha
Kharosthi
Mandombe
Masaram Gondi
Meroitic
Miao
Mwangwego
Pahawh Hmong
Sorang Sompeng
Tengwar
Thaana
Thomas Natural Shorthand
Warang Citi
Mwangwego
Rma

Linear

Non-linear

Braille
Maritime flags
Telegraph code
New York Point
Flag semaphore
Moon type

Ideograms
Adinkra Aztec Blissymbols Dongba Ersu Shaba Emoji Isotype Kaidā Miꞌkmaw Mixtec New Epoch Notation Painting Nsibidi Anishinaabewibii'iganan Olmec Siglas poveiras Testerian Yerkish Zapotec

Chinese family of scripts

Chinese characters	Simplified Traditional Oracle bone script Bronze scripts Seal script large small bird-worm Hanja Kanji Chữ Nôm Sawndip Bowen
Chinese-influenced	Jurchen Khitan large script Sui Tangut

Akkadian
Assyrian
Elamite
Hittite
Luwian
Sumerian

Other logosyllabic

Anatolian
Bagam
Cretan
Isthmian
Maya
Proto-Elamite
Tenevil
Yi (Classical)

Logoconsonantal

Demotic
Hieratic
Hieroglyphs

Numerals

Hindu-Arabic
Abjad
Attic (Greek)
Muisca
Roman

Other

Sitelen Pona

Semi-syllabaries

Full	Linear Elamite Celtiberian Northeastern Iberian Southeastern Iberian Khom Dunging
Redundant	Espanca script Pahawh Hmong Khitan small script Southwest Paleohispanic Bopomofo Quốc Âm Tân Tự

Sign languages
ASLwrite SignWriting si5s Stokoe notation

Syllabaries
Afaka Bamum Bété Byblos Canadian Aboriginal Cherokee Cypriot Cypro-Minoan Ditema tsa Dinoko Eskayan Geba Great Lakes Algonquian Iban Idu Kana Hiragana Katakana Man'yōgana Hentaigana Sōgana Jindai moji Kikakui Kpelle Linear B Linear Elamite Lisu Loma Nüshu Nwagu Aneke script Old Persian cuneiform Sumerian Vai Woleai Yi Yugtun