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Summary

Description

Principal writing scripts worldwide at the national level, with provincial-level scripts in certain cases.

Abjads (Green)

Arabic

Hebrew

Persian

Pashto

Abugidas (Orange and yellow)

Northern Brahmic

Southern Brahmic

Canadian syllabics

Geʽez

Thaana

Alphabets (Blue and cyan)

Armenian

Cyrillic

Georgian

Greek

Latin

Mongolian

Neo-Tifinagh

Osage

Syllabaries (Purple)

Cherokee

Logographies (Red)

Hanzi

Hybrids and combinations (Pink)

Japanese (Logographic kanji and syllabic kana)

Korean (Alphabetic and syllabic Hangul, with limited use of logographic Hanja)

Date

23 October 2013

Source

Own work based on: Writing systems worldwide.png, BlankMap-World6.svg and Blank Map World Secondary Political Divisions.svg

Author

User:Quintucket, based on work by User:Canuckguy and others.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:21, 22 August 2024	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	Bigfish1337	Updated map differentiating between Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Pashto scripts. Colors and labels adjusted for clarity and accuracy.
	03:36, 16 May 2024	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	Rubýñ	More color changes. I think I nailed it now
	01:39, 16 May 2024	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	Rubýñ	Probably my worst idea yet. I've reverted some of the Alphabet colors.
	00:48, 16 May 2024	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	Rubýñ	Changed Cherokee indigo to purple (was too close to cyrillic blue imo)
	00:45, 16 May 2024	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	Rubýñ	Added Cherokee and Osage, and changed Serbia to Cyrillic-Latin striped (see talk page for requests for both), but the new scripts are making the color legend unwieldy imo. I've changed all colors to hopefully make the map a) more colorblind-friendly and b) group classes of scripts together (abjads are green, alphabets are blue, etc.) I'll change the colors on all legends that use this map ASAP. If anyone can change the Cherokee and Osage dots for the actual borders of Cherokee and Osage natio...
	18:24, 13 July 2023	2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB)	M.Bitton	Added Inuit_Nunangat (per request on the Graphics Lab/Map workshop)
	16:52, 27 June 2023	2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB)	Rubýñ	Hid Antarctica
	16:48, 27 June 2023	2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB)	Rubýñ	Corrected IN-JK and the color of grey stripes
	16:39, 27 June 2023	2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB)	Rubýñ	Added Guangxi. Swapped dots in India for states and territories. Removed Cyrillic from Inner Mongolia. Removed Artsakh
	18:10, 26 June 2023	2,754 × 1,398 (1.05 MB)	Rubýñ	Abkhazia and Northern Cyprus