Discover how languages are written

A practical reference to the scripts of 7,906 languages and 228 ISO 15924 registry entries (including variants and special-purpose codes), with script data recorded for 92.3% of them. Also covering script families, writing system types, Unicode blocks and ISO 15924.

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Paste a sample to see which Unicode scripts it contains. Identifies scripts, not languages.

Explore

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Find attested language–script relationships by name or ISO 639-3 code.

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Browse scripts

Alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries and logographies, with the languages that use them.

Also: separate mixed-script text · script metrics

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ISO 639-3
Script
Character

Featured Scripts

Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian

Xsux

𒀭𒂗𒍪𒀭𒂗𒍪𒀭𒂗𒍪𒀭𒂗𒍪

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)

Jpan

すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である

Ogham

Ogam

ᚁᚂᚃᚄᚅ᚛ᚆᚇᚈᚉᚊ᚛ᚋᚌᚍᚎᚏ᚛ᚐᚑᚒᚓᚔᚕᚖ

Script Wheel

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Timeline

Script Ancestry

5,000 years of writing system derivation — from Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to Latin and Hangul — on a single phylogenetic timeline.

Dendrogram

Script Families

A hierarchical dendrogram grouping the world's writing systems by shared origin, typological family, and structural type.

Sankey

Script Types

How 7,340 languages with assigned scripts (8,035 total in ISO 639-3) distribute across writing system types — alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, and logographic scripts.

Identify the script of a text

Counts characters by Unicode script property and reports the dominant one. It does not identify the language, and short or mixed samples may be ambiguous.

Separate

Split mixed-script text into one strand per writing system.

Top 20 Scripts

Top 20 Scripts by Language Count
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Top 20 Languages

Languages with the Most Scripts – Top 20

Writing Systems

Writing System Types – All Scripts

Featured Languages

Explore languages with different recorded scripts. Each card shows a generic script demonstration, not language-specific sample text; open a language to see all its recorded scripts.

Southern Amami-Oshima

ams
Jpan

Script demonstration (Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)) — not a sample of Southern Amami-Oshima

すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である

Hanunoo

hnn
Hano

Script demonstration (Hanunoo (Hanunóo)) — not a sample of Hanunoo

ᜣᜩᜳᜰᜳᜧᜳ

Old Uighur

oui
Ougr

Script demonstration (Old Uyghur) — not a sample of Old Uighur

𐾀𐽶𐾁𐽷