Daw Sorang Sompeng Sora Tai Lue Lue Tangsa Tangsa language Todhri Albanian Tolong Siki Kurukh Toto Toto Unifon – proposed for English, never adopted Vah Bassa Vellara Albanian Vithkuqi Beitha Kukju Albanian Wancho Wancho Yezidi Kurmanji Zaghawa Zaghawa Zoulai Zou (also has alphasyllabic characteristics) Featural linear alphabets A featural script has elements that indicate the components of articulation, such as bilabial consonants, fricatives, or back vowels. Scripts differ in how many features they indicate. ASL-phabet Ditema tsa Dinoko IsiBheqe SoHlamvu for Southern Bantu languages Duployan Shorthand Gregg Shorthand Hangul Korean Osage Osage Shavian alphabet – proposed for English, never adopted SignWriting and its descendants si5s and ASLwrite for sign languages Stokoe notation for American Sign Language, and its descendant, the Hamburg Notation System or HamNoSys Tengwar (a fictional script) Visible Speech (a phonetic script) Linear alphabets arranged into syllabic blocks HangulKorean Great Lakes Algonquian syllabicsFox, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe IsiBheqe SoHlamvuSouthern Bantu languages ʼPhags-pa scriptMongolian, Chinese, Persian, Sanskrit Manual alphabets Manual alphabets are frequently found as parts of sign languages. They are not used for writing per se, but for spelling out words while signing. American manual alphabet (used with slight modification in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand) British manual alphabet (used in some of the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Australia and New Zealand) Catalan manual alphabet Chilean manual alphabet Chinese manual alphabet Dutch manual alphabet Ethiopian manual alphabet (an abugida) French manual alphabet Greek manual alphabet Icelandic manual alphabet (also used in Denmark) Indian manual alphabet (a true alphabet?; used in Devanagari and Gujarati areas) International manual alphabet (used in Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland) Iranian manual alphabet (an abjad; also used in Egypt) Israeli manual alphabet (an abjad) Italian manual alphabet Korean manual alphabet Latin American manual alphabets Polish manual alphabet Portuguese manual alphabet Romanian manual alphabet Russian manual alphabet (also used in Bulgaria and ex-Soviet states) Spanish manual alphabet (Madrid) Swedish manual alphabet Yugoslav manual alphabet Other non-linear alphabets These are other alphabets composed of something other than lines on a surface. Braille (Unified) an embossed alphabet for the visually impaired, used with some extra letters to transcribe the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, as well as Chinese Braille (Korean) Braille (American) (defunct) New York Point a defunct alternative to Braille International maritime signal flags (both alphabetic and ideographic) Morse code (International) a trinary code of dashes, dots, and silence, whether transmitted by