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World alphabet distribution:

Latin Alphabet Cyrillic alphabet Arabic alphabet Brahmic alphabet Mixed: Latin, Cyrilic and Glagolitic Alphabet Mixed: Latin and Arabic Alphabet Mixed: no alphabet and other alphabet Other alphabet No alphabet

based on en:Image:Arabic alphabet world distribution.gif, en:Image:Latin alphabet world distribution.png, en:Image:Cyrillic alphabet distribution map.png, all by en:user:MaGioZal

Note: "No alphabet" in all easily visible cases on this map refers to Chinese logograms, which are not an alphabet. The "Other alphabets" on the map include the Greek (Greece, Cyprus), Mkhedruli Georgian (Georgia), Armenian (Armenia), Hebrew (Israel), Hangul (Korea), and kana syllabary (Japan). Korean and Japanese are written with a mixture of Chinese characters and native letters, although Chinese characters are dying out in Korea.

Note that Ge'ez (Ethiopia, Eritrea) is currently marked as "No alphabet".

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(del) (rev) 21:03, 28 July 2006 . . Jagged 85 (Talk | contribs) . . 1357×628 (30,717 bytes) (World alphabet distribution: {{legend|#008000|Latin Alphabet}} {{legend|#FF0000|Cyrillic alphabet}} {{legend|#0000FF|Arabic alphabet}} {{legend|#32CD32|Brahmic alphabet}} {{legend|#8B4513|Mixed: Latin and Cyrilic Alphabet}} {{legend|#00FFFF|Mixed: Latin )