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Hand in Hand Around the World

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Languages That Are Written in More Than One Writing System

Ojibwe & Cree: Canadian aboriginal syllabics and latin alphabet
Hausa, Kanuri, Tajik, Malay, Central and Southern Kurdish, Brahui: arabic and latin scripts
Serbian/Bosnian, Karelian, Skolt Sami, Moldovan, Kazakh, Uzbekh: both cyrillic and latin alphabets
Afar and Oromo: latin, geez or arabic
Tulu: kannada, tulu or devnagri scripts
Punjabi: gurmukhi or kurmanji (arabic)
Santali: ol chiki alphabet or bengali or devnagri
Lao (in Thailand): lao or thai scripts
Zhuang: zhuang script or latin
Tagalog (and others in the Phillipines): baybayin and latin
Mongolian and Tungusic langs.: cyrillic (in Mongolia) or mongolian traditional script (in China; also different variations for Tungusic)
Japanese: hiragana, katakana, kanji and romaji
Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Buginese, Batak, Minangkabau, Renjang: latin alphabet + respective alphabet for each Indonesian language
Source: Linguistic Maps


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