abjad abugida akkadian language alphabet ampersand ancient egypt bopomofo byte cangjie input method chinese character chinese character classification classic maya language cuneiform script determinative dongba script egyptian hieroglyphs elamite language english orthography et cetera featural alphabet finnish language geba script grapheme greek language hangul hanja hieratic history of the alphabet history of writing hittite language hurrian language ideogram input method italian language japanese language jurchen kana kanji khitan language korean language latin list of inventors of writing systems list of languages by first written accounts list of languages by writing system list of writing systems logosyllabic writing luwian language maya script morpheme naxi language numeral old chinese orthography phoneme pictogram pinyin rebus semantics semitic languages shorthand spanish language sumerian language syllabary tangut language tangut script toki pona tonal language undeciphered writing systems unicode urartian language variable-width encoding vernacular chinese vietnam vietnamese language writing system wubi method yi language yucatec maya language zhuang language zhuang logogram