(perhaps a syllabary) Sidetic Sidetic Trojan script (possibly related to Linear B) Zapotec Zapotec (another old Mesoamerican script) Undeciphered manuscripts Comparatively recent manuscripts and other texts written in undeciphered (and often unidentified) writing systems; some of these may represent ciphers of known languages or hoaxes. Voynich manuscript Rohonc Codex Codex Seraphinianus Hamptonese Dorabella cipher Other Asemic writing is a writing-like form of artistic expression that generally lacks a specific semantic meaning, though it sometimes contains ideograms or pictograms. Phonetic alphabets This section lists alphabets used to transcribe phonetic or phonemic sound; not to be confused with spelling alphabets like the ICAO spelling alphabet. Some of these are used for transcription purposes by linguists; others are pedagogical in nature or intended as general orthographic reforms. International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA (and original SAMPA while not covering all of IPA), is an encoding of a phonetic alphabet, i.e. IPA, using just ASCII. Americanist phonetic notation Uralic Phonetic Alphabet Special alphabets Alphabets may exist in forms other than visible symbols on a surface. Some of these are: Tactile alphabets Braille Moon type New York Point Night writing Manual alphabets Fingerspelling For example: American Sign Language American manual alphabet Korean manual alphabet Cued Speech Long-Distance Signaling International maritime signal flags Morse code Flag semaphore Optical telegraphy Alternative alphabets Gregg Shorthand Initial Teaching Alphabet Pitman Shorthand Quikscript Fictional writing systems Ath (alphabet) Aurebesh D'ni Hymmnos Klingon On Beyond Zebra! Scripts from The Lord of the Rings Cirth Sarati Tengwar Unown Utopian For animal use Yerkish uses "lexigrams" to communicate with non-human primates. See also Constructed script (artificial script) Grapheme List of creators of writing systems List of ISO 15924 codes List of languages by first written accounts List of languages by writing system Unicode Writing systems without word boundaries Notes References External links Omniglot: a guide to writing systems Ancient Scripts: Home:(Site with some introduction to different writing systems and group them into origins/types/families/regions/timeline/A to Z) Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status Deseret Alphabet ScriptSource – a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world Writing systems Encodings