ALPHABETS OF THE

WORLD
How do we write down our words?
 Some numbers
 100 - over a hundred alphabets

 5 - main letter scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek,

Armenian & Georgian, Hangul)

 3 - symbol scripts (Chinese Hanzi, Japanese

Kanji, Kana)

 2 - Only consonants (Arabic, Hebrew)

 2+ - Consonant –vowel pairs as signs (India)

Ancient and modern Hebrew alphabet
The Runic alphabet
Japanese alphabet
Arabic alphabet