John Cowan's Little List of Scripts

Here is a list of the scripts found in Unicode 3.2, and my classification
of them.  Numbers refer to chapters in the Unicode 3.0 book as amended
by UAX #27 (Unicode 3.1) and UAX #28 (Unicode 3.2) available at www.unicode.org.

7 European scripts
    Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, Runic, Ogham, Old Italic,
        Gothic: all alphabets
8 Middle Eastern scripts
    Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana: all abjads
9 South and Southeast Asian scripts
    Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu,
        Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Khmer,
        Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa: all abugidas
10 East Asian scripts
    Han: morpho-syllabic script
    Hiragana: syllabary
    Katakana: syllabary
    Hangul: featural alphabet
    Bopomofo: alphabet
    Yi: syllabary
11 Additional scripts
    Ethiopic: abugida
    Cherokee: syllabary
    Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: abugida
    Mongolian: abjad
    Deseret: alphabet

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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_