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</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="padding:0.25em; background:navajowhite;">Marchen script<br><div style="font-weight:normal"></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-top:0.4em;padding-bottom:0.4em;"><div class="infobox-caption" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">Supposed seal of the last kings of <a href="Zhangzhung" title="Zhangzhung">Zhangzhung</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Script type</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.25em"> <a href="Abugida" title="Abugida">Abugida</a>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Period</div></th><td class="infobox-data">7th–10th century CE</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Direction</th><td class="infobox-data">Left-to-right <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Zhangzhung_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhangzhung language">Zhangzhung language</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd">Related scripts</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Parent systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="padding-top:0.15em;"><a href="Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Egyptian</a><ul><li><a href="Proto-Sinaitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Sinaitic">Proto-Sinaitic</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="Aramaic_alphabet" title="Aramaic alphabet">Aramaic</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="Brahmi_script" title="Brahmi script">Brahmi</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="Gupta_script" title="Gupta script">Gupta</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a><sup id="cite_ref-masica_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masica-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li>Marchen script</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Sister systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Meitei_script" title="Meitei script">Meitei</a>, <a href="Lepcha_script" title="Lepcha script">Lepcha</a>, <a href="Khema_script" title="Khema script">Khema</a>, <a href="Phagspa_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Phagspa script">Phagspa</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd">ISO 15924</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><a href="ISO_15924" title="ISO 15924">ISO 15924</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">
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</style><span class="monospaced">Marc</span> <span class="monospaced">(332)</span>, Marchen</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd"><a href="Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Unicode alias</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Marchen</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Unicode_range" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode range">Unicode range</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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</style><div class="plainlist nowrap"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11C70.pdf">U+11C70–U+11CBF</a> Marchen</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left;">The theorised Semitic origins of the Brahmi script are not universally agreed upon.</div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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The <a href="Brahmi_script" title="Brahmi script">Brahmi script</a> and its descendants</td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Northern Brahmic</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left;">
<ul><li><a href="Gupta_script" title="Gupta script">Gupta</a>
<ul><li><a href="Sharada_script" title="Sharada script">Sharada</a>
<ul><li><a href="La%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8D%C4%81_scripts" title="Laṇḍā scripts">Landa</a>
<ul><li><a href="Gurmukhi" title="Gurmukhi">Gurmukhi</a></li>
<li><a href="Khojki_script" title="Khojki script">Khojki</a></li>
<li><a href="Khudabadi_script" title="Khudabadi script">Khudabadi</a></li>
<li><a href="Multani_script" title="Multani script">Multani</a></li>
<li><a href="Mahajani" title="Mahajani">Mahajani</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Takri_script" title="Takri script">Takri</a>
<ul><li><a href="Dogri_script" title="Dogri script">Dogri</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kamarupi_script" title="Kamarupi script">Kamarupi</a></li>
<li><a href="Siddha%E1%B9%83_script" title="Siddhaṃ script">Siddham</a>
<ul><li><a href="N%C4%81gar%C4%AB_script" title="Nāgarī script">Nagari</a>
<ul><li><a href="Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a>
<ul><li><a href="Gujarati_script" title="Gujarati script">Gujarati</a></li>
<li><a href="Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Nandinagari" title="Nandinagari">Nandinagari</a></li>
<li><a href="Kaithi" title="Kaithi">Kaithi</a>
<ul><li><a href="Sylheti_Nagri" title="Sylheti Nagri">Sylheti Nagri</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Gaudi_script" title="Gaudi script">Gaudi</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_script" title="Bengali–Assamese script">Bengali–Assamese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bengali_alphabet" title="Bengali alphabet">Bengali</a></li>
<li><a href="Assamese_alphabet" title="Assamese alphabet">Assamese</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tirhuta_script" title="Tirhuta script">Tirhuta</a></li>
<li><a href="Odia_script" title="Odia script">Odia</a></li>
<li><a href="Nepalese_scripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Nepalese scripts">Nepalese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bhujimol_script" title="Bhujimol script">Bhujimol</a></li>
<li><a href="Ranjana_script" title="Ranjana script">Ranjana</a>
<ul><li><a href="Soyombo_script" title="Soyombo script">Soyombo</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pracalit_script" title="Pracalit script">Pracalit</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>
<ul><li><a href="Meitei_script" title="Meitei script">Meitei</a></li>
<li><a href="Lepcha_script" title="Lepcha script">Lepcha</a>
<ul><li><a href="Limbu_script" title="Limbu script">Limbu</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Khema_script" title="Khema script">Khema</a></li>
<li><a href="Phagspa_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Phagspa script">Phagspa</a>
<ul><li><a href="Zanabazar_square_script" title="Zanabazar square script">Zanabazar square</a></li></ul></li>
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<ul><li>Marchung</li>
<li>Pungs-chen</li>
<li>Pungs-chung</li>
<li>Drusha</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tamyig" title="Tamyig">Tamyig</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kalinga_script" title="Kalinga script">Kalinga</a></li>
<li><a href="Bhaiksuki_script" title="Bhaiksuki script">Bhaiksuki</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tocharian_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Tocharian alphabet">Tocharian</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Southern Brahmic</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left;">
<ul><li><a href="Bhattiprolu_script" title="Bhattiprolu script">Bhattiprolu</a></li>
<li><a href="Tamil-Brahmi" title="Tamil-Brahmi">Tamil-Brahmi</a>
<ul><li><a href="Pallava_script" title="Pallava script">Pallava</a>
<ul><li><a href="Tamil_script" title="Tamil script">Tamil</a></li>
<li><a href="Grantha_script" title="Grantha script">Grantha</a>
<ul><li><a href="Malayalam_script" title="Malayalam script">Malayalam</a></li>
<li><a href="Tigalari_script" title="Tigalari script">Tigalari</a></li>
<li><a href="Dhives_Akuru" title="Dhives Akuru">Dhives Akuru</a></li>
<li><a href="Saurashtra_script" title="Saurashtra script">Saurashtra</a></li>
<li><a href="Sinhala_script" title="Sinhala script">Sinhala</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Khmer_script" title="Khmer script">Khmer</a>
<ul><li><a href="Khom_Thai_script" title="Khom Thai script">Khom Thai</a></li>
<li>Proto-Tai script<sup>?</sup>
<ul><li><a href="Sukhothai_script" title="Sukhothai script">Sukhothai</a>
<ul><li><a href="Thai_script" title="Thai script">Thai</a></li>
<li><a href="Fakkham_script" title="Fakkham script">Fakkham</a>
<ul><li><a href="Thai_Noi_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Thai Noi script">Thai Noi</a>
<ul><li><a href="Lao_script" title="Lao script">Lao</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Viet_script" title="Tai Viet script">Tai Viet</a></li>
<li>Dai Don</li>
<li><a href="Lai_Tay_script" title="Lai Tay script">Lai Tay</a></li>
<li>Lai Pao</li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Cham_script" title="Cham script">Cham</a></li>
<li><a href="Kawi_script" title="Kawi script">Kawi</a>
<ul><li><a href="Balinese_script" title="Balinese script">Balinese</a></li>
<li><a href="Batak_script" title="Batak script">Batak</a></li>
<li><a href="Buda_script" title="Buda script">Buda</a></li>
<li><a href="Javanese_script" title="Javanese script">Javanese</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Sundanese_script" title="Old Sundanese script">Old Sundanese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Sundanese_script" title="Sundanese script">Sundanese</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Lontara_script" title="Lontara script">Lontara</a></li>
<li><a href="Makasar_script" title="Makasar script">Makasar</a></li>
<li><a href="Ulu_scripts" title="Ulu scripts">Ulu scripts</a>
<ul><li><a href="Incung_script" title="Incung script">Incung</a></li>
<li><a href="Lampung_script" title="Lampung script">Lampung</a></li>
<li><a href="Lembak_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Lembak script">Lembak</a></li>
<li><a href="Ogan_script" title="Ogan script">Ogan</a></li>
<li><a href="Pasemah_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Pasemah script">Pasemah</a></li>
<li><a href="Rejang_alphabet" title="Rejang alphabet">Rejang</a></li>
<li><a href="Serawai_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Serawai script">Serawai</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Baybayin" title="Baybayin">Baybayin</a>
<ul><li><a href="Buhid_script" title="Buhid script">Buhid</a></li>
<li><a href="Hanunoo_script" title="Hanunoo script">Hanunoo</a></li>
<li><a href="Tagbanwa_script" title="Tagbanwa script">Tagbanwa</a></li>
<li><a href="Kulitan_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kulitan alphabet">Kulitan</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mon%E2%80%93Burmese_script" title="Mon–Burmese script">Mon–Burmese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Burmese_alphabet" title="Burmese alphabet">Burmese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Chakma_script" title="Chakma script">Chakma</a></li>
<li><a href="Western_Pwo_alphabet" title="Western Pwo alphabet">Western Pwo Karen</a></li>
<li><a href="S'gaw_Karen_alphabet" title="S'gaw Karen alphabet">S'gaw Karen</a></li>
<li><a href="Shan_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Shan script">Shan</a></li>
<li><a href="Tanchangya_script" title="Tanchangya script">Tanchangya</a></li>
<li><i>Lik-Tai scripts</i>
<ul><li><a href="Ahom_script" title="Ahom script">Ahom</a></li>
<li><a href="Khamti_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Khamti script">Khamti</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Le_script" title="Tai Le script">Tai Le</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mon_alphabet" title="Mon alphabet">Modern Mon</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Tai Tham</a>
<ul><li><a href="New_Tai_Lue_alphabet" title="New Tai Lue alphabet">New Tai Lue</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pyu_script" title="Pyu script">Pyu</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Vatteluttu" title="Vatteluttu">Vatteluttu</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kolezhuthu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolezhuthu">Kolezhuthu</a></li>
<li><a href="Malayanma" title="Malayanma">Malayanma</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kadamba_script" title="Kadamba script">Kadamba</a>
<ul><li><a href="Telugu-Kannada_alphabet" title="Telugu-Kannada alphabet">Telugu-Kannada</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kannada_script" title="Kannada script">Kannada</a>
<ul><li><a href="Goykanadi" title="Goykanadi">Goykanadi</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Telugu_script" title="Telugu script">Telugu</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p>The <b>Marchen script</b> was a <a href="Brahmic_scripts" title="Brahmic scripts">Brahmic</a> <a href="Abugida" title="Abugida">abugida</a> which was used for writing the extinct <a href="Zhangzhung_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhangzhung language">Zhangzhung language</a>. It was derived from the <a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan script</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Script">Script</h2></div>
<p>As per McKay (2003), Zhang-zhung script has been modelled after <a href="Thonmi_Sambhota" title="Thonmi Sambhota">Thonmi Sambhota</a>'s <a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan script</a>:
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<blockquote><p>"There is also a Zhang-zhung alphabet, but despite its rather unusual appearance to anyone who is unfamiliar with the Indo-Tibetan ornate style of lettering known as lan-tsha, one observes that it is modeled letter by letter upon <a href="Thonmi_Sambhota" title="Thonmi Sambhota">Thon-mi Sambhota</a>'s alphabet of thirty letters."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>A number of scripts are recorded as being used for writing the Zhang-Zhung language:<sup id="cite_ref-west-2011_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-west-2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>Marchen or Greater Mar script (<a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1303208178">
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</style><span lang="bo" class="uchen" style="font-size:1.25em; vertical-align:middle; word-wrap:break-word;">སྨར་ཆེན་</span>, <a href="Wylie_transliteration" title="Wylie transliteration">Wylie</a>: <i>smar chen</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-N4491_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N4491-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Marchung or Lesser Mar script (<a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>: <span lang="bo" class="uchen" style="font-size:1.25em; vertical-align:middle; word-wrap:break-word;">སྨར་ཆུང་</span>, <a href="Wylie_transliteration" title="Wylie transliteration">Wylie</a>: <i>smar chung</i>)</li>
<li>Pungchen or Greater Pung script (<a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>: <span lang="bo" class="uchen" style="font-size:1.25em; vertical-align:middle; word-wrap:break-word;">སྤུངས་ཆེན་</span>, <a href="Wylie_transliteration" title="Wylie transliteration">Wylie</a>: <i>spungs chen</i>)</li>
<li>Pungchung or Lesser Pung script (<a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>: <span lang="bo" class="uchen" style="font-size:1.25em; vertical-align:middle; word-wrap:break-word;">སྤུངས་ཆུང་</span>, <a href="Wylie_transliteration" title="Wylie transliteration">Wylie</a>: <i>spungs chung</i>)</li>
<li>Drusha script (<a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>: <span lang="bo" class="uchen" style="font-size:1.25em; vertical-align:middle; word-wrap:break-word;">བྲུ་ཤ་</span>, <a href="Wylie_transliteration" title="Wylie transliteration">Wylie</a>: <i>bru sha</i>)</li></ul>
<p>These scripts have mostly been observed in calligraphy manuals. One extant document, a seal originally held at Tsurpu monastery, is written in the Marchen script.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2></div>
<p>The Marchen scripts has some similarities with the <a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan scripts</a> and <a href="Ranjana_script" title="Ranjana script">Lantsa</a> but at the same time differs considerably from these. It also differs from other writing systems in the <a href="Bon" title="Bon">Bon</a> tradition, such as Marchung, Pungchen, Pungchung and Drusha. A feature the Marchen script shares with Tibetan script and Lantsa are the special subjoined variants of the letters <i>wa</i>, <i>ya</i> and <i>ra</i>. The vowel diacritics are most similar to those of Drusha. A distinguishing feature of the Marchen script is the presence of a left-facing <a href="Swastika" title="Swastika">swastika</a>, a symbol of the Bon religion, which is used both to write the letter <i>nya</i> and as a punctuation mark.<sup id="cite_ref-west-2011_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-west-2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Marchen script consists of 30 consonant letters, four vowel diacritics, a vowel length marker <i> -a </i> and two diacritics for nasalization (corresponding to <i>candrabindu</i> and <i>anusvara</i>). Each consonant has an accompanying vowel <i>a</i> which can be modified with the four vowel diacritics. Consonant clusters are written just like in Tibetan script by stacking two or more consonants on top of each other vertically. Just as in Tibetan script, there are simplified forms for medial <i>w</i>, <i>y</i> and <i>r</i>. However, there is no simplified form of initial <i>r</i>. Unlike in Tibetan script, there is no sign to mark syllable boundaries, which means that ambiguities can sometimes arise.<sup id="cite_ref-west-2011_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-west-2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Marchen script can be written in two different styles: one with thick angular letters and one with thin rounded ones.<sup id="cite_ref-west-2011_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-west-2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alphabet">Alphabet</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vowels">Vowels</h3></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲈</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ā</span></span></div>
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<caption><span class="nowrap">Marchen dependent vowel diacritics</span>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲯</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>a</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲰</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ā</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲱</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>i</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲲</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>u</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲳</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>e</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲴</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>o</span></span></div>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consonants">Consonants</h3></div>
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<caption><span class="nowrap">Marchen consonants</span>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱲</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ka</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱳</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>kha</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱴</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ga</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱵</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ṅa</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱶</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ca</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱷</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>cha</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱸</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ja</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱹</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ña</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱺</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ta</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱻</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>tha</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱼</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>da</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱽</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>na</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱾</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>pa</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱿</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>pha</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲀</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ba</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲁</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ma</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲉</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ya</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲊</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ra</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲋</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>la</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲅</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>wa</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲌</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>śa</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲍</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>sa</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲎</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>ha</span></span></div>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲂</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>tsa</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲃</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>tśa</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲄</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>dza</span></span></div>
</td></tr>
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<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲆</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>zha</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲇</span></span></div><div class="template-letter-text"><span title="Marchen-script transliteration"><span>za</span></span></div>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Signs">Signs</h2></div>
<table class="wikitable">
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<td>Anusvara</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲵</span></span></div>
</td></tr>
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<td>Chandrabindu</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲶</span></span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Head mark</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱰</span></span></div>
</td></tr>
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<td>Shad</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑱱</span></span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Om</td>
<td class="template-letter-box"><div class="template-letter-char"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size:150%;">𑲏𑲴𑲶</span></span></div>
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unicode">Unicode</h2></div>
<p>Marchen script was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2016 with the release of version 9.0.
</p><p>The Unicode block for Marchen is U+11C70–U+11CBF:
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</style><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_U11C70_as_of_Unicode_version"><a href="#endnote_U11C70_as_of_Unicode_version">[1]</a></sup><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_U11C70_grey"><a href="#endnote_U11C70_grey">[2]</a></sup><br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11C70.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)
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<td style="width:20pt">1</td>
<td style="width:20pt">2</td>
<td style="width:20pt">3</td>
<td style="width:20pt">4</td>
<td style="width:20pt">5</td>
<td style="width:20pt">6</td>
<td style="width:20pt">7</td>
<td style="width:20pt">8</td>
<td style="width:20pt">9</td>
<td style="width:20pt">A</td>
<td style="width:20pt">B</td>
<td style="width:20pt">C</td>
<td style="width:20pt">D</td>
<td style="width:20pt">E</td>
<td style="width:20pt">F
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<td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+11C7x
</td>
<td title="U+11C70: MARCHEN HEAD MARK"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱰</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C71: MARCHEN MARK SHAD"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱱</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C72: MARCHEN LETTER KA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱲</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C73: MARCHEN LETTER KHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱳</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C74: MARCHEN LETTER GA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱴</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C75: MARCHEN LETTER NGA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱵</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C76: MARCHEN LETTER CA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱶</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C77: MARCHEN LETTER CHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱷</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C78: MARCHEN LETTER JA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱸</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C79: MARCHEN LETTER NYA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱹</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7A: MARCHEN LETTER TA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱺</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7B: MARCHEN LETTER THA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱻</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7C: MARCHEN LETTER DA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱼</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7D: MARCHEN LETTER NA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱽</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7E: MARCHEN LETTER PA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱾</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C7F: MARCHEN LETTER PHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑱿</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+11C8x
</td>
<td title="U+11C80: MARCHEN LETTER BA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲀</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C81: MARCHEN LETTER MA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲁</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C82: MARCHEN LETTER TSA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲂</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C83: MARCHEN LETTER TSHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲃</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C84: MARCHEN LETTER DZA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲄</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C85: MARCHEN LETTER WA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲅</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C86: MARCHEN LETTER ZHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲆</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C87: MARCHEN LETTER ZA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲇</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C88: MARCHEN LETTER -A"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲈</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C89: MARCHEN LETTER YA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲉</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8A: MARCHEN LETTER RA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲊</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8B: MARCHEN LETTER LA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲋</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8C: MARCHEN LETTER SHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲌</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8D: MARCHEN LETTER SA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲍</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8E: MARCHEN LETTER HA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲎</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C8F: MARCHEN LETTER A"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲏</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+11C9x
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="U+11C92: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER KA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲒</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C93: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER KHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲓</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C94: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER GA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲔</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C95: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER NGA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲕</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C96: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER CA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲖</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C97: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER CHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲗</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C98: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER JA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲘</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C99: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER NYA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲙</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9A: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER TA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲚</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9B: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER THA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲛</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9C: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER DA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲜</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9D: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER NA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲝</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9E: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER PA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲞</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11C9F: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER PHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲟</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+11CAx
</td>
<td title="U+11CA0: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER BA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲠</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA1: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER MA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲡</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA2: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER TSA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲢</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA3: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER TSHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲣</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA4: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER DZA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲤</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA5: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER WA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲥</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA6: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER ZHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲦</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CA7: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER ZA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲧</span>
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="U+11CA9: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER YA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲩</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAA: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER RA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲪</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAB: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER LA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲫</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAC: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER SHA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲬</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAD: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER SA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲭</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAE: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER HA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲮</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CAF: MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER A"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲯</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+11CBx
</td>
<td title="U+11CB0: MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN AA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲰</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB1: MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN I"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲱</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB2: MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN U"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲲</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB3: MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN E"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲳</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB4: MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN O"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲴</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB5: MARCHEN SIGN ANUSVARA"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲵</span>
</td>
<td title="U+11CB6: MARCHEN SIGN CANDRABINDU"><span class="script-Marc" style="font-size: 100%;">𑲶</span>
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
</td>
<td title="Reserved" style="background-color:var(--background-color-disabled,#c8ccd1);color:inherit;">
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<td colspan="17" style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small;text-align:left"><b>Notes</b>
<dl><dd>1.<span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_U11C70_as_of_Unicode_version"><b><a href="#ref_U11C70_as_of_Unicode_version">^</a></b></span> As of Unicode version 16.0</dd>
<dd>2.<span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_U11C70_grey"><b><a href="#ref_U11C70_grey">^</a></b></span> Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</dd></dl>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McKay, Alex (2003). <i>The history of Tibet, Volume 1. Volume 9 of International Institute of Administrative Sciences monographs The History of Tibet.</i> Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DVZ0gdBp6u0C&dq=Zhangzhung+lantsha&pg=PA447">[1]</a> (accessed: Sunday November 1, 2009), p.447</span>
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<li id="cite_note-west-2011-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-west-2011_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-west-2011_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-west-2011_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-west-2011_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWest2011" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Andrew_West_(linguist)" title="Andrew West (linguist)">West, Andrew</a> (30 April 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11140-n4032-marchen.pdf">"N4032: Proposal to encode the Marchen script in the SMP of the UCS"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-N4491-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-N4491_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWest2013" class="citation web cs1">West, Andrew (2013-10-22). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13197-marchen.pdf">"N4491: Final proposal to encode the Marchen script in the SMP of the UCS"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWest2008" class="citation web cs1">West, Andrew (1 January 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2008/01/zhang-zhung-royal-seal.html">"Zhang Zhung Royal Seal"</a>.</cite></span>
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<li><a href="Kaithi" title="Kaithi">Kaithi</a></li>
<li><a href="Kalinga_script" title="Kalinga script">Kalinga</a></li>
<li><a href="Khema_script" title="Khema script">Khema</a></li>
<li><a href="Khojki_script" title="Khojki script">Khojki</a></li>
<li><a href="Khudabadi_script" title="Khudabadi script">Khudabadi</a></li>
<li><a href="La%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8D%C4%81_scripts" title="Laṇḍā scripts">Laṇḍā</a></li>
<li><a href="Lepcha_script" title="Lepcha script">Lepcha</a></li>
<li><a href="Mahajani" title="Mahajani">Mahajani</a></li>
<li><a href="Meitei_script" title="Meitei script">Meitei</a></li>
<li><a href="Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi</a></li>
<li><a href="Multani_script" title="Multani script">Multani</a></li>
<li><a href="N%C4%81gar%C4%AB_script" title="Nāgarī script">Nagari</a></li>
<li><a href="Nandinagari" title="Nandinagari">Nandinagari</a></li>
<li><a href="Newari_scripts" title="Newari scripts">Nepalese scripts</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bhujimol_script" title="Bhujimol script">Bhujimol</a></li>
<li>Golmol</li>
<li>Himmol</li>
<li>Kummol</li>
<li>Kvemmol</li>
<li>Pachumol</li>
<li><a href="Pracalit_script" title="Pracalit script">Pracalit</a></li>
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<li><a href="Tirhuta_script" title="Tirhuta script">Tirhuta</a></li>
<li><a href="Limbu_script" title="Limbu script">Limbu</a></li>
<li><a href="Nepalese_scripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Nepalese scripts">Litumol</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Odia_script" title="Odia script">Odia</a>
<ul><li><a href="Karani_script" title="Karani script">Karani</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="%CA%BCPhags-pa_script" title="ʼPhags-pa script">ʼPhags-pa</a></li>
<li><a href="Sharada_script" title="Sharada script">Sharada</a></li>
<li><a href="Siddha%E1%B9%83_script" title="Siddhaṃ script">Siddhaṃ</a></li>
<li><a href="Soyombo_script" title="Soyombo script">Soyombo</a></li>
<li><a href="Sylheti_Nagri" title="Sylheti Nagri">Sylheti Nagri</a></li>
<li><a href="Takri_script" title="Takri script">Takri</a></li>
<li><a href="Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a>
<ul><li><a href="Uchen_script" title="Uchen script">Uchen</a></li>
<li><a href="Um%C3%AA_script" title="Umê script">Umê</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tocharian_script" title="Tocharian script">Tocharian</a></li>
<li><a href="Zanabazar_square_script" title="Zanabazar square script">Zanabazar square</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Ahom_script" title="Ahom script">Ahom</a></li>
<li><a href="Balinese_script" title="Balinese script">Balinese</a></li>
<li><a href="Batak_script" title="Batak script">Batak</a></li>
<li><a href="Baybayin" title="Baybayin">Baybayin</a></li>
<li><a href="Bhattiprolu_script" title="Bhattiprolu script">Bhattiprolu</a></li>
<li><a href="Buda_script" title="Buda script">Buda</a></li>
<li><a href="Buhid_script" title="Buhid script">Buhid</a></li>
<li><a href="Chakma_script" title="Chakma script">Chakma</a></li>
<li><a href="Cham_script" title="Cham script">Cham</a></li>
<li><a href="Fakkham_script" title="Fakkham script">Fakkham</a></li>
<li><a href="Grantha_script" title="Grantha script">Grantha</a></li>
<li><a href="Goykanadi" title="Goykanadi">Goykanadi</a></li>
<li><a href="Hanunoo_script" title="Hanunoo script">Hanunoo</a></li>
<li><a href="Javanese_script" title="Javanese script">Javanese</a></li>
<li><a href="Kadamba_script" title="Kadamba script">Kadamba</a></li>
<li><a href="Kannada_script" title="Kannada script">Kannada</a></li>
<li><a href="S'gaw_Karen_alphabet" title="S'gaw Karen alphabet">Karen</a></li>
<li><a href="Kawi_script" title="Kawi script">Kawi</a></li>
<li><a href="Khmer_script" title="Khmer script">Khmer</a>
<ul><li><a href="Khom_Thai_script" title="Khom Thai script">Khom Thai</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kulitan" title="Kulitan">Kulitan</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Lanna</a></li>
<li><a href="Langdi" title="Langdi">Langdi</a></li>
<li><a href="Lao_script" title="Lao script">Lao</a></li>
<li><a href="Leke_script" title="Leke script">Leke</a></li>
<li><a href="Lontara_script" title="Lontara script">Lontara</a>
<ul><li><a href="Lontara_Bilang-bilang_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Lontara Bilang-bilang script">Bilang-bilang</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Makasar_script" title="Makasar script">Makasar</a></li>
<li><a href="Malayalam_script" title="Malayalam script">Malayalam</a></li>
<li><a href="Maldivian_writing_systems" title="Maldivian writing systems">Old Maldivian</a>
<ul><li><a href="Dhives_Akuru" title="Dhives Akuru">Dhives Akuru</a></li>
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<li><a href="Mon%E2%80%93Burmese_script" title="Mon–Burmese script">Mon–Burmese</a></li>
<li><a href="Pallava_script" title="Pallava script">Pallava</a></li>
<li><a href="Pyu_script" title="Pyu script">Pyu</a></li>
<li><a href="Saurashtra_script" title="Saurashtra script">Saurashtra</a></li>
<li><a href="Shan_alphabet" title="Shan alphabet">Shan</a></li>
<li><a href="Sinhala_script" title="Sinhala script">Sinhala</a></li>
<li><a href="Sukhothai_script" title="Sukhothai script">Sukhothai</a></li>
<li><a href="Sundanese_script" title="Sundanese script">Sundanese</a>
<ul><li><a href="Old_Sundanese_script" title="Old Sundanese script">Old Sundanese</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Tagbanwa_script" title="Tagbanwa script">Tagbanwa</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Le_script" title="Tai Le script">Tai Le</a></li>
<li><a href="New_Tai_Lue_alphabet" title="New Tai Lue alphabet">New Tai Lue</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Noi_script" title="Tai Noi script">Tai Noi</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Tai Tham</a></li>
<li><a href="Tai_Viet_script" title="Tai Viet script">Tai Viet</a></li>
<li><a href="Lai_Tay_script" title="Lai Tay script">Lai Tay</a></li>
<li><a href="Tamil_script" title="Tamil script">Tamil</a></li>
<li><a href="Tamil-Brahmi" title="Tamil-Brahmi">Tamil-Brahmi</a></li>
<li><a href="Tanchangya_script" title="Tanchangya script">Tanchangya</a></li>
<li><a href="Telugu_script" title="Telugu script">Telugu</a></li>
<li><a href="Thai_script" title="Thai script">Thai</a></li>
<li><a href="Tigalari_script" title="Tigalari script">Tigalari</a></li>
<li><a href="Ulu_scripts" title="Ulu scripts">Ulu scripts</a>
<ul><li><a href="Incung_script" title="Incung script">Incung</a></li>
<li><a href="Lampung_script" title="Lampung script">Lampung</a></li>
<li><a href="Lembak_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Lembak script">Lembak</a></li>
<li><a href="Ogan_script" title="Ogan script">Ogan</a></li>
<li><a href="Pasemah_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Pasemah script">Pasemah</a></li>
<li><a href="Rejang_alphabet" title="Rejang alphabet">Rejang</a></li>
<li><a href="Serawai_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Serawai script">Serawai</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Vatteluttu" title="Vatteluttu">Vatteluttu</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kolezhuthu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kolezhuthu">Kolezhuthu</a></li>
<li><a href="Malayanma" title="Malayanma">Malayanma</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Bharati_script" title="Bharati script">Bharati</a></li>
<li><a href="Boyd's_syllabic_shorthand" title="Boyd's syllabic shorthand">Boyd's syllabic shorthand</a></li>
<li><a href="Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics" title="Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian syllabics</a>
<ul><li><a href="Blackfoot_language#Writing_system" title="Blackfoot language">Blackfoot</a></li>
<li><a href="Carrier_syllabics" title="Carrier syllabics">Déné syllabics</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Dham_script" title="Dham script">Dham</a></li>
<li><a href="Fox_language#Fox_I" title="Fox language">Fox I</a></li>
<li><a href="Ge%CA%BDez_script" title="Geʽez script">Geʽez</a></li>
<li><a href="Gunjala_Gondi_script" title="Gunjala Gondi script">Gunjala Gondi</a></li>
<li><a href="Japanese_Braille" title="Japanese Braille">Japanese Braille</a></li>
<li><a href="Sarati" title="Sarati">Sarati</a></li>
<li><a href="Sunwar_language#Writing_Systems" title="Sunwar language">Jenticha</a></li>
<li><a href="Kharosthi" title="Kharosthi">Kharosthi</a></li>
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<li><a href="Gondi_writing" title="Gondi writing">Masaram Gondi</a></li>
<li><a href="Meroitic_script" title="Meroitic script">Meroitic</a></li>
<li><a href="Pollard_script" title="Pollard script">Miao</a></li>
<li><a href="Mwangwego_script" title="Mwangwego script">Mwangwego</a></li>
<li><a href="Pahawh_Hmong" title="Pahawh Hmong">Pahawh Hmong</a></li>
<li><a href="Sorang_Sompeng_script" title="Sorang Sompeng script">Sorang Sompeng</a></li>
<li><a href="Tengwar" title="Tengwar">Tengwar</a></li>
<li><a href="Thaana" title="Thaana">Thaana</a></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Natural_Shorthand" title="Thomas Natural Shorthand">Thomas Natural Shorthand</a></li>
<li><a href="Warang_Citi" title="Warang Citi">Warang Citi</a></li>
<li><a href="Mwangwego_script" title="Mwangwego script">Mwangwego</a></li>
<li><a href="Rma_script" title="Rma script">Rma</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Alphabets0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Alphabet" title="Alphabet">Alphabets</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Linear</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adlam_script" title="Adlam script">Adlam</a></li>
<li><a href="Ariyaka_script" title="Ariyaka script">Ariyaka</a></li>
<li><a href="Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian</a></li>
<li><a href="Avestan_alphabet" title="Avestan alphabet">Avestan</a>
<ul><li><a href="Pazend" title="Pazend">Pazend</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Avoiuli" title="Avoiuli">Avoiuli</a></li>
<li><a href="Bassa_Vah_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Bassa Vah script">Bassa Vah</a></li>
<li><a href="Carian_alphabets" title="Carian alphabets">Carian</a></li>
<li><a href="Caucasian_Albanian_script" title="Caucasian Albanian script">Caucasian Albanian</a></li>
<li><a href="Cirth" title="Cirth">Cirth</a></li>
<li><a href="Coelbren_y_Beirdd" title="Coelbren y Beirdd">Coelbren</a></li>
<li><a href="Coorgi%E2%80%93Cox_alphabet" title="Coorgi–Cox alphabet">Coorgi–Cox alphabet</a></li>
<li><a href="Coptic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic alphabet">Coptic</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a>
<ul><li><a href="Serbian_Cyrillic" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian Cyrillic">Serbian</a></li>
<li><a href="Early_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Early Cyrillic alphabet">Early</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Deseret_alphabet" title="Deseret alphabet">Deseret</a></li>
<li><a href="Duployan_shorthand" title="Duployan shorthand">Duployan shorthand</a>
<ul><li><a href="Duployan_shorthand#Chinook_writing" title="Duployan shorthand">Chinook</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Eclectic_shorthand" title="Eclectic shorthand">Eclectic shorthand</a></li>
<li><a href="Elbasan_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Elbasan script">Elbasan</a></li>
<li><a href="Enochian" title="Enochian">Enochian</a></li>
<li><a href="Etruscan_alphabet" title="Etruscan alphabet">Etruscan</a></li>
<li><a href="George_Psalmanazar#Pseudo-lexicographer" title="George Psalmanazar">Formosan</a></li>
<li><a href="Fox_language#Writing_systems" title="Fox language">Fox II</a></li>
<li><a href="Fraser_script" title="Fraser script">Fraser</a></li>
<li><a href="Gabelsberger_shorthand" title="Gabelsberger shorthand">Gabelsberger shorthand</a></li>
<li><a href="Gadabuursi_Somali_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Gadabuursi Somali script">Gadabuursi</a></li>
<li><a href="Garay_alphabet" title="Garay alphabet">Garay alphabet</a></li>
<li><a href="Georgian_scripts" title="Georgian scripts">Georgian</a>
<ul><li><a href="Asomtavruli" class="mw-redirect" title="Asomtavruli">Asomtavruli</a></li>
<li><a href="Nuskhuri" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuskhuri">Nuskhuri</a></li>
<li><a href="Mkhedruli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mkhedruli">Mkhedruli</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Veso_Bey_alphabet" title="Veso Bey alphabet">Veso Bey</a></li>
<li><a href="Glagolitic_script" title="Glagolitic script">Glagolitic</a></li>
<li><a href="Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a></li>
<li><a href="Gregg_shorthand" title="Gregg shorthand">Gregg shorthand</a></li>
<li><a href="Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> (<a href="Archaic_Greek_alphabets" title="Archaic Greek alphabets">Archaic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Greco-Iberian_alphabet" title="Greco-Iberian alphabet">Greco-Iberian alphabet</a></li>
<li><a href="Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a></li>
<li><a href="Hanifi_Rohingya_script" title="Hanifi Rohingya script">Hanifi</a></li>
<li><a href="Sunuwar_alphabet" title="Sunuwar alphabet">Sunuwar</a></li>
<li><a href="Kaddare_script" title="Kaddare script">Kaddare</a></li>
<li><a href="Kayah_Li_alphabet" title="Kayah Li alphabet">Kayah Li</a></li>
<li><a href="Klingon_scripts" title="Klingon scripts">Klingon</a></li>
<li><a href="Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin</a>
<ul><li><a href="Beneventan_script" title="Beneventan script">Beneventan</a></li>
<li><a href="Blackletter" title="Blackletter">Blackletter</a></li>
<li><a href="Carolingian_minuscule" title="Carolingian minuscule">Carolingian minuscule</a></li>
<li><a href="Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a></li>
<li><a href="Gaelic_type" title="Gaelic type">Gaelic</a></li>
<li><a href="Insular_script" title="Insular script">Insular</a></li>
<li><a href="International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a></li>
<li><a href="Kurrent" title="Kurrent">Kurrent</a></li>
<li><a href="Merovingian_script" title="Merovingian script">Merovingian</a></li>
<li><a href="Scribal_abbreviation" title="Scribal abbreviation">Sigla</a></li>
<li><a href="S%C3%BCtterlin" title="Sütterlin">Sütterlin</a></li>
<li><a href="Tironian_notes" title="Tironian notes">Tironian notes</a></li>
<li><a href="Visigothic_script" title="Visigothic script">Visigothic</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Luo_script" title="Luo script">Luo</a></li>
<li><a href="Lycian_alphabet" title="Lycian alphabet">Lycian</a></li>
<li><a href="Lydian_alphabet" title="Lydian alphabet">Lydian</a></li>
<li><a href="Manchu_alphabet" title="Manchu alphabet">Manchu</a></li>
<li><a href="Medefaidrin" title="Medefaidrin">Medefaidrin</a></li>
<li><a href="Molodtsov_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Molodtsov alphabet">Molodtsov</a></li>
<li><a href="Mru_script" title="Mru script">Mru</a></li>
<li><a href="Mundari_Bani" title="Mundari Bani">Mundari Bani</a></li>
<li><a href="N'Ko_script" title="N'Ko script">N'Ko</a></li>
<li><a href="Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a></li>
<li><a href="Ol_Chiki_script" title="Ol Chiki script">Ol Chiki</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Hungarian_script" title="Old Hungarian script">Old Hungarian</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Italic_scripts" title="Old Italic scripts">Old Italic</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Permic_script" title="Old Permic script">Old Permic</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Turkic_script" title="Old Turkic script">Orkhon</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Uyghur_alphabet" title="Old Uyghur alphabet">Old Uyghur</a>
<ul><li><a href="Mongolian_script" title="Mongolian script">Mongolian</a>
<ul><li><a href="Evenki_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Evenki alphabet">Evenki</a></li>
<li><a href="Galik_alphabet" title="Galik alphabet">Galik alphabet</a></li>
<li><a href="Manchu_alphabet" title="Manchu alphabet">Manchu</a></li>
<li><a href="Clear_Script" title="Clear Script">Oirat</a></li>
<li><a href="Vagindra_script" title="Vagindra script">Vagindra</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Ol_Onal" title="Ol Onal">Ol Onal</a></li>
<li><a href="Osage_script" title="Osage script">Osage</a></li>
<li><a href="Osmanya_script" title="Osmanya script">Osmanya</a></li>
<li><a href="Pau_Cin_Hau_script" title="Pau Cin Hau script">Pau Cin Hau</a></li>
<li><a href="Phrygian_alphabet" title="Phrygian alphabet">Phrygian</a></li>
<li><a href="Pisidian_language" title="Pisidian language">Pisidian</a></li>
<li><a href="Runes" title="Runes">Runic</a>
<ul><li><a href="Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Anglo-Saxon</a></li>
<li><a href="Cipher_runes" title="Cipher runes">Cipher</a></li>
<li><a href="Dalecarlian_runes" title="Dalecarlian runes">Dalecarlian</a></li>
<li><a href="Elder_Futhark" title="Elder Futhark">Elder Futhark</a></li>
<li><a href="Younger_Futhark" title="Younger Futhark">Younger Futhark</a></li>
<li><a href="Gothic_runic_inscriptions" title="Gothic runic inscriptions">Gothic</a></li>
<li><a href="Marcomannic_runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcomannic runes">Marcomannic</a></li>
<li><a href="Medieval_runes" title="Medieval runes">Medieval</a></li>
<li><a href="Staveless_runes" title="Staveless runes">Staveless</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Shavian_alphabet" title="Shavian alphabet">Shavian</a></li>
<li><a href="Sidetic_language" title="Sidetic language">Sidetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Sorang_Sompeng_script" title="Sorang Sompeng script">Sorang Sompeng</a></li>
<li><a href="Sunuwar_alphabet" title="Sunuwar alphabet">Sunuwar</a></li>
<li><a href="Tifinagh" title="Tifinagh">Tifinagh</a></li>
<li><a href="Todhri_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Todhri script">Todhri</a></li>
<li><a href="Kurukh_language#Writing_systems" title="Kurukh language">Tolong Siki</a></li>
<li><a href="Vellara_alphabet" title="Vellara alphabet">Vellara</a></li>
<li><a href="Visible_Speech" title="Visible Speech">Visible Speech</a></li>
<li><a href="Vithkuqi_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Vithkuqi script">Vithkuqi</a></li>
<li><a href="Wancho_language#Orthography" title="Wancho language">Wancho</a></li>
<li><a href="Warang_Citi" title="Warang Citi">Warang Citi</a></li>
<li><a href="Kurdish_alphabets#Yezidi" title="Kurdish alphabets">Yezidi</a></li>
<li><a href="Zaghawa_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaghawa script">Zaghawa</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Non-linear</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a></li>
<li><a href="International_maritime_signal_flags" title="International maritime signal flags">Maritime flags</a></li>
<li><a href="Telegraph_code" title="Telegraph code">Telegraph code</a></li>
<li><a href="New_York_Point" title="New York Point">New York Point</a></li>
<li><a href="Flag_semaphore" title="Flag semaphore">Flag semaphore</a></li>
<li><a href="Moon_type" title="Moon type">Moon type</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Ideograms0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Ideogram" title="Ideogram">Ideograms</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adinkra_symbols" title="Adinkra symbols">Adinkra</a></li>
<li><a href="Aztec_script" title="Aztec script">Aztec</a></li>
<li><a href="Blissymbols" title="Blissymbols">Blissymbols</a></li>
<li><a href="Dongba_symbols" title="Dongba symbols">Dongba</a></li>
<li><a href="Ersu_Shaba_script" title="Ersu Shaba script">Ersu Shaba</a></li>
<li><a href="Emoji" title="Emoji">Emoji</a></li>
<li><a href="Isotype_(picture_language)" title="Isotype (picture language)">Isotype</a></li>
<li><a href="Kaid%C4%81_glyphs" title="Kaidā glyphs">Kaidā</a></li>
<li><a href="Mi%EA%9E%8Ckmaw_hieroglyphic_writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing">Miꞌkmaw</a></li>
<li><a href="Mixtec_writing" title="Mixtec writing">Mixtec</a></li>
<li><a href="New_Epoch_Notation_Painting" class="mw-redirect" title="New Epoch Notation Painting">New Epoch Notation Painting</a></li>
<li><a href="Nsibidi" title="Nsibidi">Nsibidi</a></li>
<li><a href="Ojibwe_writing_systems#Anishinaabewibii'iganan" title="Ojibwe writing systems">Anishinaabewibii'iganan</a></li>
<li><a href="Olmec_hieroglyphs" title="Olmec hieroglyphs">Olmec</a></li>
<li><a href="Siglas_poveiras" title="Siglas poveiras">Siglas poveiras</a></li>
<li><a href="Testerian" title="Testerian">Testerian</a></li>
<li><a href="Yerkish" title="Yerkish">Yerkish</a></li>
<li><a href="Zapotec_script" title="Zapotec script">Zapotec</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Logograms0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Logogram" title="Logogram">Logograms</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="Chinese_family_of_scripts" title="Chinese family of scripts">Chinese family of scripts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">Chinese characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified</a></li>
<li><a href="Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional</a></li>
<li><a href="Oracle_bone_script" title="Oracle bone script">Oracle bone script</a></li>
<li><a href="Chinese_bronze_inscriptions" title="Chinese bronze inscriptions">Bronze scripts</a></li>
<li><a href="Seal_script" title="Seal script">Seal script</a>
<ul><li><a href="Large_seal_script" title="Large seal script">large</a></li>
<li><a href="Small_seal_script" title="Small seal script">small</a></li>
<li><a href="Bird-worm_seal_script" title="Bird-worm seal script">bird-worm</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a></li>
<li><a href="Kanji" title="Kanji">Kanji</a></li>
<li><a href="Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m" title="Chữ Nôm">Chữ Nôm</a></li>
<li><a href="Sawndip" title="Sawndip">Sawndip</a></li>
<li><a href="Bowen_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowen script">Bowen</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Chinese-influenced</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Jurchen_script" title="Jurchen script">Jurchen</a></li>
<li><a href="Khitan_large_script" title="Khitan large script">Khitan large script</a></li>
<li><a href="Sui_script" title="Sui script">Sui</a></li>
<li><a href="Tangut_script" title="Tangut script">Tangut</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Cuneiform</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Akkadian_cuneiform" class="mw-redirect" title="Akkadian cuneiform">Akkadian</a></li>
<li><a href="Assyrian_cuneiform" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian cuneiform">Assyrian</a></li>
<li><a href="Elamite_cuneiform" title="Elamite cuneiform">Elamite</a></li>
<li><a href="Hittite_cuneiform" title="Hittite cuneiform">Hittite</a></li>
<li><a href="Cuneiform_Luwian" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneiform Luwian">Luwian</a></li>
<li><a href="Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Sumerian</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Other logosyllabic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Anatolian_hieroglyphs" title="Anatolian hieroglyphs">Anatolian</a></li>
<li><a href="Bagam_script" title="Bagam script">Bagam</a></li>
<li><a href="Cretan_hieroglyphs" title="Cretan hieroglyphs">Cretan</a></li>
<li><a href="Isthmian_script" title="Isthmian script">Isthmian</a></li>
<li><a href="Maya_script" title="Maya script">Maya</a></li>
<li><a href="Proto-Elamite_script" title="Proto-Elamite script">Proto-Elamite</a></li>
<li><a href="Tenevil" title="Tenevil">Tenevil</a></li>
<li><a href="Yi_script#Classical_Yi" title="Yi script">Yi (Classical)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Logoconsonantal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Demotic_(Egyptian)" title="Demotic (Egyptian)">Demotic</a></li>
<li><a href="Hieratic" title="Hieratic">Hieratic</a></li>
<li><a href="Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Hieroglyphs</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Numerals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system" title="Hindu–Arabic numeral system">Hindu-Arabic</a></li>
<li><a href="Abjad_numerals" title="Abjad numerals">Abjad</a></li>
<li><a href="Attic_numerals" title="Attic numerals">Attic (Greek)</a></li>
<li><a href="Muisca_numerals" title="Muisca numerals">Muisca</a></li>
<li><a href="Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Roman</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Sitelen_Pona" title="Sitelen Pona">Sitelen Pona</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Semi-syllabaries0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Semi-syllabaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-syllabaries">Semi-syllabaries</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Full</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Linear_Elamite" title="Linear Elamite">Linear Elamite</a></li>
<li><a href="Celtiberian_script" title="Celtiberian script">Celtiberian</a></li>
<li><a href="Iberian_scripts" title="Iberian scripts">Iberian</a>
<ul><li><a href="Northeastern_Iberian_script" title="Northeastern Iberian script">Northeastern</a></li>
<li><a href="Southeastern_Iberian_script" title="Southeastern Iberian script">Southeastern</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Khom_script_(Ong_Kommadam)" title="Khom script (Ong Kommadam)">Khom</a></li>
<li><a href="Dunging_script" title="Dunging script">Dunging</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Redundant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Espanca_script" title="Espanca script">Espanca script</a></li>
<li><a href="Pahawh_Hmong" title="Pahawh Hmong">Pahawh Hmong</a></li>
<li><a href="Khitan_small_script" title="Khitan small script">Khitan small script</a></li>
<li><a href="Southwest_Paleohispanic_script" title="Southwest Paleohispanic script">Southwest Paleohispanic</a></li>
<li><a href="Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_writing_in_Vietnam#Quốc_Âm_Tân_Tự" title="History of writing in Vietnam">Quốc Âm Tân Tự</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Sign_languages0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Sign_language" title="Sign language">Sign languages</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ASLwrite" title="ASLwrite">ASLwrite</a></li>
<li><a href="SignWriting" title="SignWriting">SignWriting</a></li>
<li><a href="Si5s" title="Si5s">si5s</a></li>
<li><a href="Stokoe_notation" title="Stokoe notation">Stokoe notation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Syllabaries0" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Syllabary" title="Syllabary">Syllabaries</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Afaka_syllabary" title="Afaka syllabary">Afaka</a></li>
<li><a href="Bamum_script" title="Bamum script">Bamum</a></li>
<li><a href="B%C3%A9t%C3%A9_syllabary" title="Bété syllabary">Bété</a></li>
<li><a href="Byblos_syllabary" title="Byblos syllabary">Byblos</a></li>
<li><a href="Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics" title="Canadian Aboriginal syllabics">Canadian Aboriginal</a></li>
<li><a href="Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee</a></li>
<li><a href="Cypriot_syllabary" title="Cypriot syllabary">Cypriot</a></li>
<li><a href="Cypro-Minoan_syllabary" title="Cypro-Minoan syllabary">Cypro-Minoan</a></li>
<li><a href="Ditema_tsa_Dinoko" title="Ditema tsa Dinoko">Ditema tsa Dinoko</a></li>
<li><a href="Eskayan_script" title="Eskayan script">Eskayan</a></li>
<li><a href="Geba_syllabary" title="Geba syllabary">Geba</a></li>
<li><a href="Great_Lakes_Algonquian_syllabics" title="Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics">Great Lakes Algonquian</a></li>
<li><a href="Iban_language#Alphabet" title="Iban language">Iban</a></li>
<li><a href="Idu_script" title="Idu script">Idu</a></li>
<li><a href="Kana" title="Kana">Kana</a>
<ul><li><a href="Hiragana" title="Hiragana">Hiragana</a></li>
<li><a href="Katakana" title="Katakana">Katakana</a></li>
<li><a href="Man'y%C5%8Dgana" title="Man'yōgana">Man'yōgana</a></li>
<li><a href="Hentaigana" title="Hentaigana">Hentaigana</a></li>
<li><a href="S%C5%8Dgana" title="Sōgana">Sōgana</a></li>
<li><a href="Jindai_moji" title="Jindai moji">Jindai moji</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mende_Kikakui_script" title="Mende Kikakui script">Kikakui</a></li>
<li><a href="Kpelle_syllabary" title="Kpelle syllabary">Kpelle</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_B" title="Linear B">Linear B</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_Elamite" title="Linear Elamite">Linear Elamite</a></li>
<li><a href="Lisu_language#Lisu_syllabary" title="Lisu language">Lisu</a></li>
<li><a href="Loma_language#writing_systems" title="Loma language">Loma</a></li>
<li><a href="N%C3%BCshu" title="Nüshu">Nüshu</a></li>
<li><a href="Nwagu_Aneke_script" title="Nwagu Aneke script">Nwagu Aneke script</a></li>
<li><a href="Old_Persian_cuneiform" title="Old Persian cuneiform">Old Persian cuneiform</a></li>
<li><a href="Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Sumerian</a></li>
<li><a href="Vai_syllabary" title="Vai syllabary">Vai</a></li>
<li><a href="Woleai_script" title="Woleai script">Woleai</a></li>
<li><a href="Yi_script#Modern_Yi" title="Yi script">Yi</a></li>
<li><a href="Yugtun_script" title="Yugtun script">Yugtun</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Braille_⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑206" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a><span style="padding-left:0.5em;"> </span>⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Braille cell</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="1829_braille" title="1829 braille">1829 braille</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="International_uniformity_of_braille_alphabets" title="International uniformity of braille alphabets">International uniformity</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_ASCII" title="Braille ASCII">ASCII braille</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_Patterns" title="Braille Patterns">Unicode braille patterns</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Braille scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">French-ordered</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Albanian_Braille" title="Albanian Braille">Albanian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Azeri_Braille" class="mw-redirect" title="Azeri Braille">Azerbaijani</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Cantonese_Braille" title="Cantonese Braille">Cantonese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Catalan_Braille" title="Catalan Braille">Catalan</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Mainland_Chinese_Braille" title="Mainland Chinese Braille">Chinese (mainland Mandarin)</a> (largely reassigned)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Czech_Braille" title="Czech Braille">Czech</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Dutch_Braille" title="Dutch Braille">Dutch</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="English_Braille" title="English Braille">English</a> (<a href="Unified_English_Braille" title="Unified English Braille">Unified English</a>)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Esperanto_Braille" title="Esperanto Braille">Esperanto</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="French_Braille" title="French Braille">French</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="German_Braille" title="German Braille">German</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ghanaian_braille" title="Ghanaian braille">Ghanaian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Guarani_Braille" title="Guarani Braille">Guarani</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Hawaiian_Braille" title="Hawaiian Braille">Hawaiian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Hungarian_Braille" title="Hungarian Braille">Hungarian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="I%C3%B1upiaq_Braille" title="Iñupiaq Braille">Iñupiaq</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="IPA_Braille" title="IPA Braille">IPA</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Irish_Braille" title="Irish Braille">Irish</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Italian_Braille" title="Italian Braille">Italian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Latvian_Braille" title="Latvian Braille">Latvian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Lithuanian_Braille" title="Lithuanian Braille">Lithuanian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Luxembourgish_Braille" title="Luxembourgish Braille">Luxembourgish</a> (extended to 8-dot)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Maltese_Braille" title="Maltese Braille">Maltese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="M%C4%81ori_Braille" title="Māori Braille">Māori</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Navajo_Braille" title="Navajo Braille">Navajo</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Nigerian_braille" title="Nigerian braille">Nigerian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Philippine_Braille" title="Philippine Braille">Philippine</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Polish_Braille" title="Polish Braille">Polish</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Portuguese_Braille" title="Portuguese Braille">Portuguese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Romanian_Braille" title="Romanian Braille">Romanian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Samoan_Braille" title="Samoan Braille">Samoan</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Slovak_Braille" title="Slovak Braille">Slovak</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="South_African_braille" title="South African braille">South African</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Spanish_Braille" title="Spanish Braille">Spanish</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Taiwanese_Braille" title="Taiwanese Braille">Taiwanese Mandarin</a> (largely reassigned)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Turkish_Braille" title="Turkish Braille">Turkish</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Vietnamese_Braille" title="Vietnamese Braille">Vietnamese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Welsh_Braille" title="Welsh Braille">Welsh</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Yugoslav_Braille" title="Yugoslav Braille">Yugoslav</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Zambian_Braille" title="Zambian Braille">Zambian</a></span></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nordic family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Estonian_Braille" title="Estonian Braille">Estonian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Faroese_Braille" title="Faroese Braille">Faroese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Icelandic_Braille" title="Icelandic Braille">Icelandic</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Scandinavian_Braille" title="Scandinavian Braille">Scandinavian</a></span>
<ul><li><span class="nowrap">Danish</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Finnish</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Greenlandic</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Northern_S%C3%A1mi_Braille" title="Northern Sámi Braille">Northern Sámi</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Norwegian</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Swedish</span></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Russian lineage family<br>i.e. <a href="Cyrillic_alphabets" title="Cyrillic alphabets">Cyrillic</a>-mediated scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Belarusian_Braille" title="Belarusian Braille">Belarusian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Bulgarian_Braille" title="Bulgarian Braille">Bulgarian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Kazakh_Braille" title="Kazakh Braille">Kazakh</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Kyrgyz_Braille" title="Kyrgyz Braille">Kyrgyz</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Mongolian_Braille" title="Mongolian Braille">Mongolian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Russian_Braille" title="Russian Braille">Russian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Tatar_Braille" title="Tatar Braille">Tatar</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ukrainian_Braille" title="Ukrainian Braille">Ukrainian</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Egyptian lineage family<br>i.e. <a href="Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic</a>-mediated scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Arabic_Braille" title="Arabic Braille">Arabic</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Persian_Braille" title="Persian Braille">Persian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Urdu_Braille" title="Urdu Braille">Urdu</a> (Pakistan)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indian lineage family<br>i.e. <a href="Bharati_Braille" title="Bharati Braille">Bharati Braille</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Devanagari_Braille" title="Devanagari Braille">Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Bengali_Braille" title="Bengali Braille">Bengali (Bangla / Assamese)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Gujarati_Braille" title="Gujarati Braille">Gujarati</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Kannada_Braille" title="Kannada Braille">Kannada</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Malayalam_Braille" title="Malayalam Braille">Malayalam</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Odia_Braille" title="Odia Braille">Odia</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Punjabi_Braille" title="Punjabi Braille">Punjabi</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Sinhala_Braille" title="Sinhala Braille">Sinhala</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Tamil_Braille" title="Tamil Braille">Tamil</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Telugu_Braille" title="Telugu Braille">Telugu</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Urdu_Braille" title="Urdu Braille">Urdu</a> (India)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ge'ez_Braille" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez Braille">Amharic</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Armenian_Braille" title="Armenian Braille">Armenian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Burmese_Braille" title="Burmese Braille">Burmese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Dzongkha_Braille" title="Dzongkha Braille">Dzongkha</a> (Bhutanese)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Georgian_Braille" title="Georgian Braille">Georgian</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Greek_Braille" title="Greek Braille">Greek</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Hebrew_Braille" title="Hebrew Braille">Hebrew</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Inuktitut_Braille" title="Inuktitut Braille">Inuktitut</a> (reassigned vowels)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Khmer_Braille" title="Khmer Braille">Khmer</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Thai_and_Lao_Braille" title="Thai and Lao Braille">Thai and Lao</a> (Japanese vowels)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Tibetan_Braille" title="Tibetan Braille">Tibetan</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reordered</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Algerian_Braille" title="Algerian Braille">Algerian Braille</a> (obsolete)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Frequency-based</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="American_Braille" title="American Braille">American Braille</a> (obsolete)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap">Chinese semi-syllabaries</span>
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Cantonese_Braille" title="Cantonese Braille">Cantonese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Mainland_Chinese_Braille" title="Mainland Chinese Braille">Mainland Chinese Mandarin</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Taiwanese_Braille" title="Taiwanese Braille">Taiwanese Mandarin</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Two-cell_Chinese_Braille" title="Two-cell Chinese Braille">Two-cell Chinese (Shuangpin)</a></span></li></ul></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Japanese_Braille" title="Japanese Braille">Japanese</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Korean_Braille" title="Korean Braille">Korean</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eight-dot</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Luxembourgish_Braille" title="Luxembourgish Braille">Luxembourgish</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_kanji" title="Braille kanji">Kanji</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Gardner%E2%80%93Salinas_braille_codes" title="Gardner–Salinas braille codes">Gardner–Salinas braille codes</a> (GS8)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Symbols in braille</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_music" title="Braille music">Braille music</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Canadian_currency_tactile_feature" title="Canadian currency tactile feature">Canadian currency marks</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Computer_Braille_Code" title="Computer Braille Code">Computer Braille Code</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Gardner%E2%80%93Salinas_braille_codes" title="Gardner–Salinas braille codes">Gardner–Salinas braille codes</a> (science; GS8/GS6)</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="IPA_Braille" title="IPA Braille">International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Nemeth_Braille" title="Nemeth Braille">Nemeth braille code</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Braille_technology" title="Braille technology">Braille technology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_e-book" title="Braille e-book">Braille e-book</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_embosser" title="Braille embosser">Braille embosser</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_translator" title="Braille translator">Braille translator</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_watch" title="Braille watch">Braille watch</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Mountbatten_Brailler" title="Mountbatten Brailler">Mountbatten Brailler</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Optical_braille_recognition" title="Optical braille recognition">Optical braille recognition</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Perforation" title="Perforation">Perforation</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Perkins_Brailler" title="Perkins Brailler">Perkins Brailler</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Refreshable_braille_display" title="Refreshable braille display">Refreshable braille display</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Slate_and_stylus" title="Slate and stylus">Slate and stylus</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braigo" title="Braigo">Braigo</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Louis_Braille" title="Louis Braille">Louis Braille</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Charles_Barbier" title="Charles Barbier">Charles Barbier</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="R%C3%B3%C5%BCa_Czacka" title="Róża Czacka">Róża Czacka</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Valentin_Ha%C3%BCy" title="Valentin Haüy">Valentin Haüy</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Harris_Mowbray" title="Harris Mowbray">Harris Mowbray</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Thakur_Vishva_Narain_Singh" title="Thakur Vishva Narain Singh">Thakur Vishva Narain Singh</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Sabriye_Tenberken" title="Sabriye Tenberken">Sabriye Tenberken</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="William_Bell_Wait" title="William Bell Wait">William Bell Wait</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_Institute_of_America" title="Braille Institute of America">Braille Institute of America</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_Without_Borders" title="Braille Without Borders">Braille Without Borders</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Japan_Braille_Library" title="Japan Braille Library">Japan Braille Library</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="National_Braille_Association" title="National Braille Association">National Braille Association</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Blindness organizations</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap">Schools for the blind</span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="American_Printing_House_for_the_Blind" title="American Printing House for the Blind">American Printing House for the Blind</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other <a href="Tactile_alphabet" title="Tactile alphabet">tactile alphabets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Decapoint" title="Decapoint">Decapoint</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Moon_type" title="Moon type">Moon type</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="New_York_Point" title="New York Point">New York Point</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Night_writing" title="Night writing">Night writing</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Vibratese" title="Vibratese">Vibratese</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Accessible_publishing" title="Accessible publishing">Accessible publishing</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Braille_literacy" title="Braille literacy">Braille literacy</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="RoboBraille" title="RoboBraille">RoboBraille</a></span></li></ul>
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