The world's scripts and alphabets
www.worldstandards.eu › other › alphabetsJul 02, 2020 · On the outline map below you can see the distribution of the world’s most important scripts that are currently used. A quick calculation shows that about 2.6 billion people (36% of the world population) use the Latin alphabet, about 1.3 billion people (18%) use the Chinese script, about 1 billion people (14%) use the Devanagari script (India ...
Alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphabetAn alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units.