Data-Driven
Script Statistics
Data analysis of 203 writing systems worldwide
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Total Scripts
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Active
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Endangered
人
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Total Users (M)
Status Distribution
Active70(34%)
Endangered49(24%)
Extinct79(39%)
5(2%)
By Region
South Asia
Middle East
East Asia
SE Asia
Africa
Europe
Global
Americas
Caucasus
By Type
Abugida
Alphabet
Abjad
Syllabary
Logographic
Logosyllabic
Pictographic
Featural
Other
Top 10 by Users
1⬡Unicode Standard8.0B
2ALatin Alphabet4.0B
3文Chinese Characters (Hanzi)1.5B
4अDevanagari600M
5عArabic420M
6অBengali (Bangla)265M
7АCyrillic Alphabet250M
8あHiragana125M
9アKatakana125M
10∑Mathematical Notation100M
↔ Writing Direction
Each script has its own writing direction. About 30% of the world's population uses RTL scripts.
Left-to-Right (LTR)
Right-to-Left (RTL)
Top-to-Bottom
68%
◉𒀭𒀸𐎠
22%
𐤐𓀀𐡀א
9%
ᚁ甲ㄅᠠ
📅 Scripts by Historical Era
When were new scripts born? Political, religious, and technological shifts in each era spurred script creation.
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36
59
26
36
11
Ancient
~BC 500
Classical
BC 500~AD 500
Medieval
500~1400
Early Modern
1400~1800
Modern
1800~1950
Contemporary
1950~
💡 Scripts emerged intensively in the Middle East and South Asia during ancient and classical eras. In the modern period, missionaries and nationalist movements drove new script creation.