Alphabets, scripts or writing systems

Based on a sample, guess the alphabet, script or writing system that is depicted in the image.

Includes a few alphabets from fictional languages.

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Last updated: May 28, 2022

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First submitted	February 3, 2019
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Level 71

Feb 3, 2019

Wow, so extensive, well done.

Level 67

Apr 12, 2019

I do not think the the Niqqud (Vowels) should be used for the picture of Hebrew, as it is hardly ever used among fluent speakers of the language while reading, and most read Hebrew without the Niqqud.

Level 74

Oct 20, 2019

Changed to something else. I have zero idea about most of the scripts over here (all but two) so maybe this new pic is more appropiated. Regards.

Level 60

Mar 23, 2021

Great quiz. The best thing about the quiz is how it is flawless despite being so extensive. I didn't find any place to complain.

I made a similar quiz but with very limited answers because I was very picky about it

Level 74

Mar 24, 2021

Thank you. Yes, picking a sample instead of the complete alphabet made the image search easier. I remember some of them are a political party or a random newspaper.

There may be mistakes of course, as I am completely unfamiliar with almost all of them. Any comment is very welcome :)

Level 61

Mar 23, 2021

You should consider accepting Inuktitut for Canadian Aboriginal, great quiz!!

Level 74

Mar 24, 2021

Added. Apparently the one depicted here is an alphabet for the Cree language, which is somehow different to Inuktitut, but for the purposes of this quiz I feel it is enough to identify it. Thank you.

Level 58

Mar 4, 2022

Interestingly, the Cree-alphabet looks the most futuristic, I actually thought it to be from a sci-fi movie or series, like Klingon.

Level 65

Mar 23, 2021

good stuff, really difficult. Nominated! Good luck

Level 73

Mar 24, 2021

Nice work! I would suggest adding a caveat stating that this includes real and fictional languages (Klingon, Elvish, etc.). Also, an extra minute would be much appreciated. I don't think 4 minutes are enough time for 40 answers. You must allow for some thinking time.

Level 74

Mar 24, 2021

Completely agree on both suggestions. Both of them are implemented now. Thank you very much.

Level 38

Apr 5, 2021

Ehm... maybe im wrong but you should add more correct answers for Chinese like Mandarin (talked by people these days), Cantonese (by people who live in hongkong and some other areas),... as what i know, on the picture is Mandarin. Anw you made an awesome quiz! I really like it.

Level 64

Aug 12, 2021

It's not about the language but about the script though. I agree there should be more type-ins on that one, but Mandarin or Cantonese would be wrong, in my opinion.

Level 73

Mar 4, 2022

Level 74

Mar 5, 2022

So, any suggestions? It currently accepts, Chinese, Hanzi and Simplified Chinese. Kept Kanji and Hanza aside, maybe I should add them... not sure which more type-ins to add. Thank you.

Level 68

Jun 11, 2021

Impressive quiz. Fun.

Level 79

Jun 14, 2021

What a great quiz, nominated! Very proud of myself for recognising the text from the Voynich Manuscript.

Level 74

Mar 5, 2022

Cool someone recognized it! Somewhat obscure, but I thought it had a cool story behind it so I kept it!

Level 64

Aug 12, 2021

Great quiz, but damn, you need to work on the type-ins here. Surely 'hyroglyphs' should be accepted rather than just 'Egyptian', and 'hanzu'/'kanji' should really be accepted for Chinese characters. There's plenty of others well. This quiz really has potential though, so I've nominated it all the same!

Level 74

Mar 5, 2022

Added more type ins for Hieroglyphs, hard word, that's why I accepted Egyptian. Not sure about the Chinese ones though. What others you think they need more type ins? Thank you.

Level 57

Aug 17, 2023

If you want, you could do "h[iey]+r[eo]gl[iy]ph" for the RegEx, but I don't think you need to accept anything other than hieroglyph and Egyptian.

Level 69

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz, thanks. Nominated!

Level 68

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz! But please accept Futhark for runes.

Level 74

Nov 9, 2021

Done!

Level 67

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz! I suggest you to include tamasheq, an alphabet that has beautiful letters.

Level 74

Nov 9, 2021

Thank you, good idea!! I added an extra row with this one, a native American one, one more from India and a curious one from an insular country (actually consider by Wikipedia as one of the major scripts in the world, and it was missing!)

Level 57

Nov 8, 2021

Amazing quiz, I found little room to complain!

Level 61

Mar 4, 2022

Loved the quiz! Just one thing, the answer box for "Maldivian" says "Thaana", but the quiz doesn't accept "Thaana" as the answer.

Level 74

Mar 5, 2022

You were right, fixed. It actually accepted Maldivian, Taana, Tana and something else, but not Thana!

Level 72

Mar 4, 2022

Great quiz! The picture you have for Elvish is written using Tengwar, the alphabet used for the elvish languages, but the text there is the inscription from the One Ring, which is in the Black Speech.

Level 74

Mar 5, 2022

So do you think it should be changed? If it is using Tengwar, this quiz is about scripts so it should be accepted even though the language is not Elvish iself. But to be honest, I have zero idea.

Level 59

Mar 4, 2022

I can already hear TheNatureThread typing his comments…

Level 60

May 20, 2022

Can you add Divehi as a type in for Maldivian, I only knew it as that.

Level 74

May 22, 2022

Done. Apparently that's the name of the language, and what's given here is the name of the script. But added as well, for the purpose of this quiz I feel it is enough.

Level 83

May 27, 2022

Surprised Ethiopic didn't work for Ethiopian.

Level 83

May 27, 2022

For you Unicode nerds:

Thai: 0E00-0E7F

Greek: 0370-03FF

Hangul: all over the place

Hebrew: 0590-05FF

Latin: mostly 0000-00FF

Mongolian: 1800-18AF

Braille: 2800-28FF

Klingon: not in Unicode

Devanagari: 0900-097F

Armenian: 0530-058F

Morse Code: not in Unicode separate from normal dots and dashes

Tamil: 0B80-0BFF

Cuneiform: 12000-1247F

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: 1400-167F

Voynich: not in Unicode (and shouldn't be until it's translated)

Syriac: 0700-074F

Ethiopic: 1200-139F

Chinese: all over the place

Arabic: 0600-06FF

Runic: 16A0-16FF

Lao: 0E80-0EFF

Egyptian Hieroglyphs: 13000-1342F

Mayan Numerals: 1D2E0-1D2FF

Katakana: 30A0-30FF

Aurebesh: not in Unicode

Myanmar: 1000-109F

Phoenician: 10900-1091F

Gothic: 10330-1034F

Elvish: not in Unicode

Bengali: 0980-09FF

Tibetan: 0F00-0FFF

Georgian: 10A0-10FF

IPA: 0250-02AF

Rongorongo: not in Unicode (untranslated)

Telugu: 0C00-0C7F

Javanese: 0A980-A9DF

Khmer: 1780-17FF

Cyrillic: 0400-052F

Sign Language: not in Unicode

Gujarati: 0A80-0AFF

Level 83

May 27, 2022

Tifinagh: 2D30-2D7F

Cherokee: 13A0-13FF

Thaana: 0780-07BF

Malayalam: 0D00-0D7F

Level 72

May 28, 2022

Thanks for the answers! LOL. Except, it doesn't accept Tifinagh :(

Anyway, nice quiz! Some other suggestions that you can add: Nastaliq (used to write Farsi and Urdu) and Gurmukhi (Punjabi).

Level 58

Dec 25, 2022

Could you accept 'Heiroglyphics' ?

Level 58

Feb 27, 2023

Telugu....Nice!

Level 58

Jun 2, 2023

Nice quiz!

How about making it more difficult in the way that answer must match the highlighted script? Of course that could use a bit longer time then.

(Or make second quiz - one easy and one difficult variant.)

Level 55

Jun 2, 2023

Yes I agree - I really enjoyed it but did get a lot of them just by typing random stuff in thinking "that will probably be in there somewhere". It would be more satisfying (though harder) with the yellow box.

Level 57

Aug 17, 2023

I think I prefer it as is, but a yellow box version could be good.

Level 70

Jun 2, 2023

I couldn't remember how to spell Voynich... Awesome quiz!

Level 57

Aug 5, 2023

Fun quiz!

Feels nice to be able to recognise Rongorongo

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