Africa and Western, Central, and Southeast Asia, Hebrew Hebrew and other Jewish languages Manichaean script Nabataean the Nabataeans of Petra Pahlavi script Middle Persian Parthian Psalter Phoenician Phoenician and other Canaanite languages Proto-Canaanite Sogdian Samaritan (Old Hebrew) Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew Syriac Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Syriac, Turoyo and other Neo-Aramaic languages Tifinagh Tuareg Ugaritic Ugaritic, Hurrian True alphabets A true alphabet contains separate letters (not diacritic marks) for both consonants and vowels. Linear nonfeatural alphabets Linear alphabets are composed of lines on a surface, such as ink on paper. Adlam Fula Armenian Armenian Avestan Avestan Avoiuli Raga Borama Somali CarianCarian Caucasian Albanian Caucasian Albanian Coorgi–Cox alphabet Kodava Coptic Egyptian Cyrillic Eastern South Slavic languages (Bulgarian and Macedonian), the Western South Slavic Serbian, Eastern Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian), the other languages of Russia, Kazakh language, Kyrgyz language, Tajik language, Mongolian language. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are changing to the Latin alphabet but still have considerable use of Cyrillic. See Languages using Cyrillic. Deseret alphabet – proposed for English but never adopted Eclectic shorthand English Elbasan Albanian Fraser Lisu Gabelsberger shorthand German Garay Wolof and Mandinka Georgian Georgian and other Kartvelian languages Gjirokastër (also called Veso Bey) Albanian Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic Gothic Gothic Greek Greek, historically a variety of other languages Hanifi Rohingya International Phonetic Alphabet Kaddare Somali Latin Roman originally Latin language; most current western and central European languages, Turkic languages, sub-Saharan African languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, languages of maritime Southeast Asia and languages of Oceania use developments of it. Languages using a non-Latin writing system are generally also equipped with Romanization for transliteration or secondary use. Lycian Lycian Lydian Lydian Manchu Manchu Mandaic Mandaic dialect of Aramaic Medefaidrin also called Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ; used for the religious language of the same name Mongolian Mongolian Mundari Bani Mundari Mru Mru Neo-Tifinagh Tamazight Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Hmong N'Ko Maninka language, Bambara, Dyula language Ogham Gaelic, Britannic, Pictish Ol Chiki Ol Cemet' or Ol Chemet' Santali Old Hungarian (in Hungarian magyar rovásírás or székely-magyar rovásírás) Hungarian Old Italic a family of connected alphabets for the Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Messapian, South Picene, Raetic, Venetic, Lepontic, Camunic languages Old Permic (also called Abur) Komi Old Turkic Old Turkic Old Uyghur Old Uyghur Ol Onal Bhumij Language Osmanya Somali Pau Cin Hau script Zomi and other Northern Kuki-Chin languages Runes Germanic languages Sayaboury (also called Eebee Hmong or Ntawv Puaj Txwm) Hmong