List of Inventors of Writing Systems - Z

Z

Zaya Pandit - Kalmuk lama, developed Todo script in 1648.
Zhang Binglin - Chinese linguist, invented shorthand that was developed into Zhuyin in 1913.

Writing systems

Overview	History of writing History of the alphabet Graphemes Scripts in Unicode

Lists	Writing systems Languages by writing system / by first written account Undeciphered writing systems Inventors of writing systems

Types	Featural alphabets Alphabets Abjads Alphasyllabaries / Abugidas Syllabaries Semi-syllabaries Ideogrammic Pictographic Logographic Numeral

Types of writing systems

Overview	History of writing Grapheme

Lists	Writing systems undeciphered inventors Languages by writing system / by first written accounts

Types

Abjads

Numerals

Ancient Berber
Aramaic
Arabic
Pitman shorthand
Elymaic
Hanifi
Hebrew
- Ashuri
- Cursive
- Rashi
Jawi
Libyco-Berber
Manichaean
Nabataean
Pahlavi
Paleo-Hebrew
Pegon
Phoenician
Proto-Canaanite
Psalter
Punic
Sabaean
Samaritan
South Arabian
- Zabur
- Musnad
Sogdian
Syriac
- ʾEsṭrangēlā
- Serṭā
- Maḏnḥāyā
Thalmudic
Tifinagh
Ugaritic
Yazidi

Abugidas

Brahmic	Ahom Akkha Anga Lipi Ardhanagari Assamese Balinese Batak Batak Simalungun Dairi Batak Karo Batak Mandaling Batak Toba Batak Baybayin Bengali Bhaiksuki Bhattiprolu Bhujimol Brāhmī Buhid Burmese Canadian Aboriginal Chakma Cham Chameali Chipewyan Chis Chong Coorgi Damili Deodhai Devanāgarī Dhimal Dhives Akuru Divehi Akuru Dīvī Grantha Duota Eastern Nagari Evēla Akuru Gangga Malayu Golmol Gondi Goykanadi Grantha Gujarati Gupta Gurmukhī Gurung Hanunó'o Hinmol Idu azobra Japanese Siddham Javanese Kadamba Kaithi Kalinga Kamtapura Kannada Kawi Kayah Li Khambu Rai Khema Tamu Phri Khmer Âksâr chriĕng Âksâr chhôr Âksâr khâm Âksâr mul Khojki Khrom Khudabadi Kirat Rai Kolezhuthu Koloma Kulitan Kunmol Kwenmol Laṇḍā Langdi Lanna Lao Leke Lepcha Lik Tai Mao Lik Hto Ngouk Lik To Yao Limbu\|Kiranti Litumol Lontara Mahajani Malayalam Malwari Mangyan Marchen Marchung Meitei Mayek Mithilakshar Modi Mol Mon Multani Muriya Nāgarī Nandinagari Old Bimanese Old Kannada Old Kawi Old Khmer Oriya Pachumol Pallava 'Phags-pa Prachalit Nepal Pranagari Pyu Pyu Pali Pyu Tircul Ranjana Rejang Bengkulu Lembak Lintang Kaganga Lampung Lebong Serawai Rencong Saindhu Śāradā Saurashtra Shan Sinhala Siddhaṃ Sorang Sompeng Soyombo Sundanese Syloti Nagri Tagbanwa Tai Le Tai Laing Tai Noy Tai Viet Takri Tam Yig Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Uchen Umê Bamyik Joyig Monyig Lhoyig Tikamuli Tocharian Tulu Varang Kshiti Vatteluttu Xäwtää Dörböljin Zolai

Others	Boyd's syllabic shorthand Ge'ez Japanese braille Kharosthi Mandombe Meroitic Miao Mwangwego Pahawh Hmong Tāna Thomas Natural Shorthand

Alphabets

Linear	Abkhaz Anglo-Saxon Armenian Avestan Avoiuli Bassa Vah Borama Buryat Camunian Carian Caucasian Albanian Coptic Cyrillic Dalecarlian runes Deseret Duployan shorthand Early Cyrillic Eclectic shorthand Elbasan Elder Futhark Evenki Faliscan Fraser Fula Ba Fula Dita Gabelsberger shorthand Georgian Asomtavruli Nuskhuri Mkhedruli Glagolitic Gothic Gregg shorthand Greek Greco-Iberian alphabet Gurung Khe Phri Hangul International Phonetic Jenticha Kaddare Latin Beneventan Blackletter Carolingian minuscule Fraktur Gaelic Insular Kurrent Merovingian Sütterlin Visigothic Lemnian Lycian Lydian Manchu Mandaic Marcomannic runes Medieval runes Molodtsov Mongolian Mro Neo-Tifinagh New Tai Lue N'Ko Numidian Ogham Oirat Ol Chiki Old Hungarian Old Italic Camunic Etruscan Faliscan Lepontic Magrè Marsiliana Messapic North Picene Nucerian Oscan Sanzano South Picene Umbrian Venetic Old Permic Orkhon Old Uyghur Osmanya Palmyrene Pau Cin Hau Pisidian Runic Salifou Hausa Satavahana Sidetic Shavian alphabet Staveless runes Tafi Todhri Tolong Siki Visible Speech Vithkuqi Wolof Younger Futhark Zaghawa

Non-linear	Braille Hebrew Korean Maritime flags Morse code New York Point Semaphore line Flag semaphore Moon type

Ideo/Pictograms

Aztec Blissymbol DanceWriting Dongba Ersu Shaba Míkmaq New Epoch Notation Painting Nsibidi SignWriting Testerian Zapotec

Logograms

Chinese	Traditional Simplified Hanja Hán tự Kanji

Chinese-based	Ancient Bouyei Chữ Nôm Idu Jurchen Khitan large script Tangut Zhuang Shualeri Zinan

Cuneiform	Akkadian Assyrian Eblaite Elamite Hattic Hittite Hurrian Luwian Sumerian Urartic

Other logo-syllabic	Anatolian Cretan Cuneiform Isthmian Maya Proto-Elamite Shui Urartic Yi

Logo-consonantal	Demotic Hieratic Hieroglyphs

Numerals	Hindu-Arabic Abjad Greek (Attic) Roman

Semi-syllabaries

Full	Celtiberian Northeastern Iberian Southeastern Iberian Khom

Redundant	Espanca Pahawh Hmong Khitan small script Southwest Paleohispanic Zhùyīn fúhào

Syllabaries

Afaka Bamum Bété Blackfoot Byblos Cherokee Cypriot Déné Eskayan Geba Hiragana Katakana Kikakui Kpelle Linear B Linear Elamite Lisu Loma Man'yōgana Nüshu Old Persian Cuneiform Tani Lipi Vai Woleai Yi Yugtun

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