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The unified [[Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols|diacritical character]]s and unified [[General Punctuation|punctuation characters]] frequently have the "common" or "inherited" script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own [[punctuation]] and [[diacritic]]s, so that many scripts include not only letters but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and [[Space (punctuation)|space]] characters.

Unicode {{Unicode version|version=1516.10}} defines 161168 separate scripts, including 9499 modern scripts and 6769 ancient or historic scripts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt|title=Unicode Character Database: Scripts|website=unicode.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 | chapter = Chapter 14: Additional Ancient and Historic Scripts | publisher = Unicode, Inc | date = September 2022 | ___location = Mountain View, CA | url = https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch14.pdf | isbn = 978-1-936213-32-0 }}</ref> More scripts are in the process for encoding or have been tentatively allocated for encoding in roadmaps.<ref>https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/ Roadmaps to Unicode</ref>

== Definition and classification ==