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DescriptionWriting systems worldwide.svg |
Principal writing scripts worldwide at the national level, with provincial-level scripts in certain cases. Abjads (Green) Abugidas (Orange and yellow) Brahmic #FF671FBrahmic #F0E68Csyllabics #A0522DAlphabets (Blue and cyan) Syllabaries (Purple) Logographies (Red) Hybrids and combinations (Pink) |
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Author | User:Quintucket, based on work by User:Canuckguy and others. | ||
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current | 03:36, 16 May 2024 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | More color changes. I think I nailed it now | |
01:39, 16 May 2024 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Probably my worst idea yet. I've reverted some of the Alphabet colors. | ||
00:48, 16 May 2024 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Changed Cherokee indigo to purple (was too close to cyrillic blue imo) | ||
00:45, 16 May 2024 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Added Cherokee and Osage, and changed Serbia to Cyrillic-Latin striped (see talk page for requests for both), but the new scripts are making the color legend unwieldy imo. I've changed all colors to hopefully make the map a) more colorblind-friendly and b) group classes of scripts together (abjads are green, alphabets are blue, etc.) I'll change the colors on all legends that use this map ASAP. If anyone can change the Cherokee and Osage dots for the actual borders of Cherokee and Osage natio... | ||
18:24, 13 July 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.19 MB) | M.Bitton (talk | contribs) | Added Inuit_Nunangat (per request on the Graphics Lab/Map workshop) | ||
16:52, 27 June 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Hid Antarctica | ||
16:48, 27 June 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Corrected IN-JK and the color of grey stripes | ||
16:39, 27 June 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.11 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Added Guangxi. Swapped dots in India for states and territories. Removed Cyrillic from Inner Mongolia. Removed Artsakh | ||
18:10, 26 June 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.05 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | +Abkhazia and Northern Cyprus | ||
17:49, 26 June 2023 | 2,754 × 1,398 (1.05 MB) | Rubýñ (talk | contribs) | Corrected countries like Pakistan and Ethiopia that have more than one script. Added Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia. Added Mongolian script and Tifinagh. Changed color of Armenian. Added Northern Brahmic to Fiji for Fiji Hindi. |
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File usage on Commons
The following 6 pages use this file:
- Atlas of languages
- User:Chumwa/OgreBot/Travel and communication maps/2023 February 10-18
- User:Chumwa/OgreBot/Travel and communication maps/2023 July 11-20
- User:Chumwa/OgreBot/Travel and communication maps/2023 June 21-30
- User:Chumwa/OgreBot/Travel and communication maps/2024 May 11-20
- File:Writing systems worldwide.png
File usage on other wikis
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- Usage on as.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Alphabet
- Brahmic scripts
- List of writing systems
- Urdu alphabet
- List of Unicode characters
- Universal Character Set characters
- Writing system
- Hangul
- Template:Writing systems worldwide
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/May 2023
- User:Remsense/wsib
- User:Falcaorib/Modern Languages, Nations and Religions
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ka.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ms.wikipedia.org
- Usage on simple.wikipedia.org
- Usage on vi.wikipedia.org
- Usage on zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org
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