分類:各類文字
各種文字系統按它們表示詞語的方式分類。
- Category:元音附標文字：Scripts whose symbols represent consonant and vowel combinations. Symbols representing the same consonant combined with different vowels are for the most part similar in form.
- Category:全音素文字：Scripts whose symbols represent individual speech sounds.
- Category:語素文字：Scripts whose symbols represent individual words.
- Category:象形文字：Scripts whose symbols represent individual words by using symbols that resemble the physical objects to which those words refer.
- Category:輔音音素文字：Scripts whose basic symbols represent consonants. Some of these are impure abjads, which have letters for some vowels.
- Category:音節文字：Scripts whose symbols represent consonant and vowel combinations. Symbols representing the same consonant combined with different vowels are for the most part different in form.