Ideographic scripts (in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas rather than a specific word in a language) and pictographic scripts (in which the graphemes … See more

In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. (The 19th-century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather than true syllabaries.)
• Afaka – Ndyuka
• Alaska or Yugtun script – Central Yup'ik See more

These systems have not been deciphered. In some cases, such as Meroitic, the sound values of the glyphs are known, but the texts still cannot be read because the language is not understood. Several of these systems, such as Isthmian script and See more

This section lists alphabets used to transcribe phonetic or phonemic sound; not to be confused with spelling alphabets like the See more

In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements. See more

A segmental script has graphemes which represent the phonemes (basic unit of sound) of a language.
Note that there need not be (and rarely is) a one-to-one correspondence between the graphemes of the script and the phonemes of a language. A … See more

Comparatively recent manuscripts and other texts written in undeciphered (and often unidentified) writing systems; some of these may … See more