All Script Families (Scripts and Alphabets)

Writing systems of the world that are grouped here by the large family they belong to or by their own special type, such as Chinese characters, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hittite cuneiform, the Indian scripts and the Japanese man'yogana. An entry belongs here when it is a script in its own right whose main interest to the atlas is its religious or ritual use, and that does not fit one of the narrower script family groups.