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Script Statistics

Data analysis of 203 writing systems worldwide

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Total Scripts
0
Active
0
Endangered
0
Total Users (M)

Status Distribution

203scripts
Active70(34%)
Endangered49(24%)
Extinct79(39%)
5(2%)

By Region

South Asia
45
Middle East
39
East Asia
29
SE Asia
26
Africa
21
Europe
19
Global
10
Americas
8
Caucasus
6

By Type

Abugida
72
Alphabet
56
Abjad
33
Syllabary
20
Logographic
14
Logosyllabic
4
Pictographic
2
Featural
1
Other
1

Top 10 by Users

1Unicode Standard8.0B
2ALatin Alphabet4.0B
3Chinese Characters (Hanzi)1.5B
4Devanagari600M
5عArabic420M
6Bengali (Bangla)265M
7АCyrillic Alphabet250M
8Hiragana125M
9Katakana125M
10Mathematical Notation100M

Writing Direction

Each script has its own writing direction. About 30% of the world's population uses RTL scripts.

Left-to-Right (LTR)
139
Right-to-Left (RTL)
45
Top-to-Bottom
19
68%
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22%
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9%

📅 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.

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