Alphabets, Scripts, or Writing Systems

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

Includes a few alphabets from fictional languages.

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First submitted	February 3, 2019
Times taken	22,365
Average score	40.9%
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90 Comments

+24

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 75

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 59

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 75

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 75

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 60

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 74

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 75

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.

+10

Level 63

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 74

Mar 4, 2022

Level 75

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 74

Nov 5, 2023

Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken languages. Both can use either Traditional Chinese writing (used in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and much of the Chinese diaspora) or Simplified Chinese writing (used mostly in Mainland China). This example is Simplified Chinese —it says "Chinese Communist Party" in Simplified Chinese, which can be zhong guo gong chan dang in Mandarin, jung gwok gung caan dong in Cantonese, etc.

Level 68

Jun 11, 2021

Impressive quiz. Fun.

Level 78

Jun 14, 2021

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

Level 75

Mar 5, 2022

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

Level 63

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 75

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 61

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 72

Mar 29, 2024

I agree hieroglyph plus egyptian should be enough. Those that can't manage the first one can jsut use the second one.

Level 69

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz, thanks. Nominated!

Level 69

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz! But please accept Futhark for runes.

Level 75

Nov 9, 2021

Done!

Level 69

Nov 8, 2021

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

Level 75

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 61

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 75

Mar 5, 2022

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

Level 77

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 75

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 60

Mar 4, 2022

I can already hear TheNatureThread typing his comments…

Level 59

Nov 5, 2023

Surprisingly, he hasn't!

Level 65

May 20, 2022

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

Level 75

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 85

May 27, 2022

Surprised Ethiopic didn't work for Ethiopian.

Level 85

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 56

Jan 19, 2024

what

Level 85

May 27, 2022

Tifinagh: 2D30-2D7F

Cherokee: 13A0-13FF

Thaana: 0780-07BF

Malayalam: 0D00-0D7F

Level 73

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 82

Oct 30, 2023

I'm not sure Nastaliq really counts as a separate script? I would argue that it's more just a particular style of writing Arabic.

Level 59

Nov 5, 2023

No it's different

Level 38

Jun 10, 2024

It's nasty.

Level 59

Dec 25, 2022

Could you accept 'Heiroglyphics' ?

Level 59

Feb 27, 2023

Telugu....Nice!

Level 67

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 57

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 61

Aug 17, 2023

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

Level 69

Jun 2, 2023

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

Level 60

Aug 5, 2023

Fun quiz!

Feels nice to be able to recognise Rongorongo

Level 61

Oct 20, 2023

The characters are a bit difficult to see with dark mode, you might want to adjust that a bit.

Level ∞

Oct 30, 2023

This has been fixed

Level 60

Nov 2, 2023

It's still not working well for me on dark mode. I can barely read half of them

Level ∞

Nov 2, 2023

Fixed for dark mode on mobile.

Level 65

Oct 30, 2023

I'm so glad that it became featured! Congratulations to you!

Level 64

Oct 30, 2023

Can't get the yellow boxes to highlight on my phone. What a shame - it's an interesting quiz

Level 76

Oct 30, 2023

That's because there aren't any...

Level 64

Oct 31, 2023

Duh! Thank you!!

Level 91

Oct 30, 2023

should add enochian and the witches alphabet

Level 69

Oct 30, 2023

Could you accept add some more type-ins for "Phoenician"? Maybe "phonecian" and "phonician"?

Level 76

Oct 30, 2023

Great quiz, but maybe the yellow box is needed here?

Level 90

Oct 30, 2023

You'd have to be a genius to read and write some of these languages.

Level 79

Oct 31, 2023

After experiencing this variety, I was almost expecting to see Linear A/B, binary, and C++, just to name a few.

Level 91

Oct 31, 2023

As usual, I missed an important detail before starting the quiz and didn't realize there were fictional languages included. But the fourteen-year-old nerd in me is alive and kicking, apparently. Saw that script out of Tolkien and recognized it immediately. Went back and got one of the other made-up scripts. (I tried "Predatorish" for the Star Wars language. Kind of reminds me of the digital readout on the Predator's wrist-mounted control panel gizmo. Probably misremembering it, though.)

Level 87

Oct 31, 2023

The Klingon shown is from the northern continent. Southern Klingon is a curvier script.

Level 83

Oct 31, 2023

Fascinating quiz.

Level 75

Nov 5, 2023

Could you accept Aramaic for Syriac? It is aka Syrian Aramaic

Level 67

Nov 5, 2023

Could you accept American for Latin? Cause it is how America writes…

Level 66

Nov 5, 2023

bruh, this gotta be the most US-centric comment I've ever seen. The English language might as well be called the American language at this point

Level 76

Nov 5, 2023

I hope this is a joke.

Level 51

Nov 5, 2023

I do as well.

Level 67

Nov 5, 2023

Sure, just wanna have fun

Level 51

Nov 5, 2023

I would have gotten Armenian if it was not for the confusing font. Those characters do not look like any font I have ever seen Armenian written in.

Level 46

Nov 5, 2023

Is Bengali the language, and eastern nagari the script? And then why does Bangla not work, I know it can be used synonymously with Bengali

Level 72

Nov 6, 2023

Can you accept "kanji" for the Chinese characters, and can you accept ASL for the sign language?

Level 48

Nov 6, 2023

I'm proud to call myself a Star Wars nerd when I got Aurebesh immediately

Level 65

Nov 6, 2023

why the fictional ones :sob:

Level 72

Nov 7, 2023

Great quiz, but can I ask for slightly more time? Also, can bichig be accepted for the Mongolian script? Furthermore, I suggest that the "main name" of the Elvish script be changed to Tengwar, because that is the name of the script.

Level 64

Nov 14, 2023

Is that the Yandex logo?

Level 46

Feb 15, 2024

“Hangeul” should be accepted which uses the newer way of romanising.

Level 20

Feb 25, 2024

I forgot Morse code and wrote barille instead of Braille and there one of the most obvious 😂😂

Level 20

Feb 25, 2024

Scoring

You scored 6/44 = 14%

This beats or equals 6.6% of test takers

The average score is 18

Your high score is 6

I'm so bad 😂😭💀

Level 57

Mar 15, 2024

I was wondering why syllabics doesn’t work for the Canadian aboriginal script, as that’s what I’ve usually heard it referred as. Great quiz!

Level 72

Mar 29, 2024

though my score might not have been great ( only 22.. ) I did know gothic and easter island and also voynich though I couldn't come up with it.

I think this quiz could (should) use yellow box and more time. So people won't start spamming languages, which is a lot less fun

Level 67

Apr 26, 2024

Hangeul should be accepted

Level 34

May 11, 2024

I got Rongorongo but not Hebrew.

Level 75

Aug 12, 2024

Fun quiz. Consider accepting just "International" for IPA?

Level 60

Oct 9, 2024

please accept "syllabics" / "canadian syllabics" for the canadian aboriginal syllabics, as that's what they're usually called in canada :)

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