Ancient Scripts: Timeline

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West Asia
Cuneiform
Sumerian
Akkadian
Old Persian
Elamite
Alphabet
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenician
Aramaic
Hebrew
Samaritan
Pahlavi
Avestan
Nabataean
Arabic
Palmyrene
Syriac
Mandaic
Old Hebrew
South Arabian
Thamudic
Ugaritic
Armenian
Georgian
Hittite
Byblos
Luwian
Carian
Lycian
Lydian


Africa
Egyptian
Meroïtic
Berber
Coptic
Tifinagh
Ethiopic


Europe
Cretan Hieroglyphs
Linear A
Cypriot
Linear B
Phaistos Disc
Greek
Etruscan
Latin
Faliscan
Umbrian
Venetic
Oscan
Gothic
Cyrillic
Glagolitic
Iberian
Futhark
Ogham
Old Hungarian


South Asia
Indus Script
South Asian Scripts
Brahmi
Gupta
Sarada
Nagari
Bengali
Oriya
Devanagari
Gujarati
Modi
Landa
Gurmukhi
Takri
Kashmiri
Kadamba
Old Kannada
Kannada
Telugu
Grantha
Dhivehi
Sinhala
Tamil
Malayalam
Kalinga
Vatteluttu
Kharosthi
South Asian Scripts Comparison
Meithei Mayek
Lepcha


Central Asia
Sogdian
Tocharian
Tibetan
Turkic Runes
Uighur
Mongolian


East Asia
Chinese
Japanese
Nushu
Korean
Khitan
Jurchen
hPhags-pa
Naxi
Yi Scripts


Southeast Asia
Kawi
Javanese
Mangyan
Tagalog
Buginese
Rejang
Burmese
Khmer
Lao
Thai


Americas
Quipu
Mesoamerican Scripts
Zapotec
Maya
Epi-Olmec
Teotihuacan
Mixtec
Aztec
Cherokee
Cree
Inuktitut