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	35,772
Average score	40.9%
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100 Recent Comments

Level 66

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 78

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 54

Nov 21, 2024

It is better. It contains a lot more common letters

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 78

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 78

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 59

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 76

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 78

Mar 24, 2021

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

Level 37

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.

+12

Level 66

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 76

Mar 4, 2022

Level 78

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 79

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 54

Nov 21, 2024

That isn't Mandarin just Chinese characters in general. Cantonese and Mandarin are both different VERBAL languages but they use the same writing system. so Chinese is the right answer because of this.

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 78

Mar 5, 2022

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

Level 66

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 78

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 63

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 76

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 68

Nov 8, 2021

Great quiz! But please accept Futhark for runes.

Level 78

Nov 9, 2021

Done!

Level 71

Nov 8, 2021

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

Level 78

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 63

Nov 8, 2021

Amazing quiz, I found little room to complain!

Level 62

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 78

Mar 5, 2022

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

Level 85

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 78

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 66

Mar 4, 2022

I can already hear TheNatureThread typing his comments…

Level 63

Nov 5, 2023

Surprisingly, he hasn't!

Level 68

May 20, 2022

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

Level 78

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 87

May 27, 2022

Surprised Ethiopic didn't work for Ethiopian.

Level 87

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 59

Jan 19, 2024

what

Level 87

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 87

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 63

Nov 5, 2023

No it's different

Level 60

Jun 10, 2024

It's nasty.

Level 68

Dec 25, 2022

Could you accept 'Heiroglyphics' ?

Level 63

Feb 27, 2023

Telugu....Nice!

Level 72

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 60

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 63

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 61

Aug 5, 2023

Fun quiz!

Feels nice to be able to recognise Rongorongo

Level 62

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 69

Oct 30, 2023

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

Level 63

Oct 30, 2023

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

Level 78

Oct 30, 2023

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

Level 63

Oct 31, 2023

Duh! Thank you!!

Level 95

Oct 30, 2023

should add enochian and the witches alphabet

Level 73

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 92

Oct 30, 2023

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

Level 88

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 90

Oct 31, 2023

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

Level 81

Oct 31, 2023

Fascinating quiz.

Level 78

Nov 5, 2023

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

Level 69

Nov 5, 2023

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

Level 67

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 82

Nov 5, 2023

I hope this is a joke.

Level 51

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 67

Nov 19, 2024

Both Bengali and Assamese (some others too I think) have almost the same script so Eastern Nagari is used here as an umbrella term I guess.

Level 72

Nov 6, 2023

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

Level 51

Nov 6, 2023

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

Level 64

Nov 6, 2023

why the fictional ones :sob:

Level 73

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 47

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 64

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 76

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 70

Apr 26, 2024

Hangeul should be accepted

Level 44

May 11, 2024

I got Rongorongo but not Hebrew.

Level 80

Aug 12, 2024

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

Level 71

Oct 9, 2024

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

Level 55

Nov 27, 2024

Why it says "alphabet" in every language but in russian its logo of Yandex - russian browser. What???

Level 63

Dec 6, 2024

It doesn't say alphabet in every language. Latin says french, Telugu says Telugu, Tamil says Tamil, IPA has a pronunciation of IPA

Level 63

Dec 6, 2024

needs yellow box!

Level 57

May 9, 2025

Would be better without the fictional languages

Level 76

May 31, 2025

very informative!

Level 48

Jun 10, 2025

Which Sign Langue is that? ASL? BSL? 🇺🇸👋 🇬🇧👋

Level 43

Jun 18, 2025

i got klingon but freaking FORGOT to write cyrillian 💀

Level 66

Jun 22, 2025

Great quiz! Elven should be added as the primary option (or, at least, an option) to the language. It was Tolkien's preferred nomenclature.

Level 71

Jul 25, 2025

sooooooo interesting : thank you !!!!

Level 41

Aug 24, 2025

Can Kanji be accepted for Japanese as that’s what the script is called?

Level 28

Nov 13, 2025

I could not see all of the pictures! I just guessed on some of them that I couldn't see! My computer is really slow sometimes.

Level 60

Dec 4, 2025

Didn't realize there would be fake languages lol. I was like man I've never seen some of these

Level 55

Feb 1, 2026

Why ge'ez and not oromo, is it not the same things?

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