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Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RI-lik) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various...

from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and early...

JavaScript (/ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt/ ), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine...

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...

(/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡəri/ DAY-və-NAH-gə-ree; in script: देवनागरी, IAST: Devanāgarī, Sanskrit pronunciation: [deːʋɐˈnaːɡɐriː]) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent...

not become the primary script until the mid 20th century (Hanja and mixed script were the primary script until then). The script uses 24 basic letters...

been made to reform the script, including the promotion of small seal script by the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Clerical script, which had matured by the...

The Script are an Irish soft-rock band formed in 2001 in Dublin. The band currently consists of Danny O'Donoghue (lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards)...

writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. The earliest writing...

used to transcribe foreign words. The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also descending from Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was later...

traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE, with the sets of forms and norms more...

variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language...

old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering. After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary...

Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana...

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely...

U+0261 ɡ LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G is available, as well as an upper case version, U+A7AC Ɡ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G. Occasionally the difference...

of these scripts had the same angular letter shapes suited for epigraphy, which would become characteristic of the runes and related scripts in the region...

later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician...

Mediterranean basin. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems...

their small seal script across the recently conquered parts of the empire is generally seen as being the first real attempt at script reform in Chinese...