Scripts

Overview

Scripts are the sets of characters in which languages are written. Learning to identify different scripts is powerful because it allows you to narrow in on which language(s) are typically spoken in a region and, thus, where you are likely to be. Though languages often draft their unique alphabets from existing scripts, they tend to add their own unique letters to represent sounds unique to their language that they feel aren’t adequately represented by the script being adapted.

Index

Script	Languages	Primary Regions
Cyrillic	Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Kazakh,Kyrgyz,Mongolian, Tajik	Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Northern Kazakhstan, Southern Siberia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania
Latin Script	English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Filipino, Swahili, Turkish, Croatian, Slovenian, Albanian, Bosnian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian	United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, 📌Australia, 📌New Zealand, South Africa
Arabic Script	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Sindhi, Uyghur	Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan,Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Hebrew Script	Hebrew, Yiddish	Israel, Antwerp, Jerusalem
Han Chinese Characters	Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean	China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, 📌Japan, 📌South Korea, Singapore
Devanagari	Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Konkani	India, Nepal, Mauritius, Fiji
Hangul	Korean	📌South Korea, North Korea
Greek Script	Greek Script	Greece, Cyprus
Thai Script	Thai Script	Thailand
Lao Script	Lao Script	Laos
Khmer Script	Cambodian	Cambodia
Tamil Script	India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa	India, Sri Lanka
Indian Scripts	Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Konkani, Tamil Script, Telugu Script, Kannada Script, Malayalam Script, Bengali Script, Gujarati Script, Punjabi, Odia Script, Assamese, Urdu	India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh