Logographic Writing Systems

Consonant-based logographies

• Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic – from Ancient Egypt
  • Egyptian hieroglyphs

Syllable-based logographies

• Anatolian hieroglyphs – Luwian
• Cuneiform – Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, and Urartian
• Chinese characters (Hanzi) – Chinese, Japanese (Kanji), Korean (Hanja), Vietnamese (Han-Nom)
  • Jurchen script – Jurchen
  • Khitan large script – Khitan
  • Tangut script – Tangut
  • Zhuang script – Zhuang
  • Nom – Vietnamese (for vernacular Vietnamese)
• Eghap (or Bagam) script
• Mayan – Chorti, Yucatec, and other Classic Maya languages
• Yi (classical) – various Yi/Lolo languages
• Shui script – Shui language