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While all characters have the property of belonging to a script, many characters, such as symbols, indicate “common” or “inherited” for their script property. The unified diacritical characters and unified punctuation characters frequently have the “common” or “inherited” script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics. So many scripts include not only letters, but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and space characters.

Unicode already5.2 includes over90 60modern and historic scripts supporting hundreds or even thousands of languages throughout the World. Unicode is actively working on many more as indicated by its [[Unicode#Unicode roadmap|roadmap]].

== Writing system ==

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== Table of Unicode scripts ==

The following table lists the 7590 scripts that are defined in Unicode 5.12.<ref>[http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt Unicode Character Database : Scripts]</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|-

! Unicode script name

! Relevant Wikipedia article(s)

! [[ISO 15924]] code<ref>[http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/ ISO 15924 Registration Authority]</ref>

! Number of characters (as of Unicode 5.2)

(as of Unicode 5.1)

! Version of Unicode first encoded

|-

Line 53 ⟶ 52:

|

| Zyyy

| 5,178395

|

|-

Line 59 ⟶ 58:

|

| Qaai

| 496523

|

|-

Line 65 ⟶ 64:

| [[Arabic alphabet]]

| Arab

| 9991,030

| 1.0

|-

Line 73 ⟶ 72:

| 90

| 1.0

|-

| Avestan

| [[Avestan alphabet]]

| Avst

| 61

| 5.2

|-

| Balinese

Line 79 ⟶ 84:

| 121

| 5.0

|-

| Bamum

| [[Bamum language]]

| Bamu

| 88

| 5.2

|-

| Bengali

| [[Bengali script]]

| Beng

| 9192

| 1.0

|-

Line 113 ⟶ 124:

| [[Canadian Aboriginal syllabics]]

| Cans

| 630710

| 3.0

|-

Line 137 ⟶ 148:

| [[Coptic alphabet]]

| Copt

| 128135

| 1.0 (disunified from Greek in 4.1)

|-

Line 167 ⟶ 178:

| [[Devanagari script]]

| Deva

| 107140

| 1.0

|-

| Egyptian Hieroglyphs

| [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]]

| Egyp

| 1,071

| 5.2

|-

| Ethiopic

Line 215 ⟶ 232:

| [[Chinese character]], [[Kanji]], [[Hanja]], [[Hán tự]]

| Hani

| 7175,578738

| 1.0

|-

Line 221 ⟶ 238:

| [[Hangul]]

| Hang

| 11,620737

| 1.0 (Hangul syllables relocated in 2.0)

|-

| Hanunoo

Line 239 ⟶ 256:

| [[Hiragana]]

| Hira

| 8990

| 1.0

|-

| Imperial Aramaic

| [[Aramaic language#Imperial Aramaic|Aramaic language]]

| Armi

| 31

| 5.2

|-

| Inscriptional Pahlavi

| [[Pahlavi scripts#Inscriptional Pahlavi|Pahlavi scripts]]

| Phli

| 27

| 5.2

|-

| Inscriptional Parthian

| [[Parthian language#Written Parthian|Parthian language]]

| Prti

| 30

| 5.2

|-

| Javanese

| [[Javanese script]]

| Java

| 91

| 5.2

|-

| Kaithi

| [[Kaithi]]

| Kthi

| 66

| 5.2

|-

| Kannada

Line 281 ⟶ 328:

| [[Latin alphabet]]

| Latn

| 1,241244

| 1.0

|-

Line 301 ⟶ 348:

| 211

| 4.0

|-

| Lisu

| [[Fraser alphabet]]

| Lisu

| 48

| 5.2

|-

| Lycian

Line 319 ⟶ 372:

| 95

| 1.0

|-

| Meetei Mayek

| [[Meitei Mayek script]]

| Mtei

| 56

| 5.2

|-

| Mongolian

Line 329 ⟶ 388:

| [[Burmese script]]

| Mymr

| 156188

| 3.0

|-

Line 341 ⟶ 400:

| [[New Tai Lue]]

| Talu

| 8083

| 4.1

|-

Line 367 ⟶ 426:

| 50

| 4.1

|-

| Old South Arabian

| [[South Arabian alphabet]]

| Sarb

| 32

| 5.2

|-

| Old Turkic

| [[Old Turkic script]]

| Orkh

| 73

| 5.2

|-

| Oriya

Line 389 ⟶ 460:

| [[Phoenician alphabet]]

| Phnx

| 2729

| 5.0

|-

Line 403 ⟶ 474:

| 78

| 3.0

|-

| Samaritan

| [[Samaritan script]]

| Samr

| 61

| 5.2

|-

| Saurashtra

Line 457 ⟶ 534:

| 35

| 4.0

|-

| Tai Tham

| [[Tai Tham script]]

| Lana

| 127

| 5.2

|-

| Tai Viet

| [[Tai Viet script]]

| Tavt

| 72

| 5.2

|-

| Tamil