Official script
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An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions. Akin to an official language, an official script is much rarer. It is used primarily where an official language is in practice written with two or more scripts. As, in these languages, use of script often has cultural or political connotations, proclamation of an official script is sometimes criticized as having a goal of influencing culture or politics or both. Desired effects also may include easing education, communication and some other aspects of life.
List of official scripts
Below is a partial list of official scripts used in different countries. Those in italics are states that have limited international recognition.
This list does not cover local variations of international scripts, such as which diacritics are used.
- Armenia– Armenian alphabet
- Bolivia– Latin script
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska– Cyrillic and Latin Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina– Cyrillic and Latin
- Bulgaria– Cyrillic (Bulgarian alphabet)
- Cambodia– Khmer script
- China, People's Republic of (mainland China)– Simplified Chinese Hong Kong SAR– Traditional Chinese (de facto), Latin script Macau SAR– Traditional Chinese (de facto), Latin script Inner Mongolia region– Mongolian alphabet, Simplified Chinese Tibet region– Tibetan alphabet, Simplified Chinese Xinjiang region– Uyghur Ereb Yéziqi, Simplified Chinese Guangxi region– Zhuang Latin alphabet, Simplified Chinese
- Croatia– Croatian alphabet
- Ethiopia– Ge'ez script
- Eritrea– Ge'ez script
- Georgia– Georgian alphabet[citation needed]
- Greece– Greek alphabet
- Hungary– Latin script
- India: Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Nepali, Maithili, Boro, Sanskrit, Dogri – Devanagari Assamese– Assamese alphabet Bengali– Bengali alphabet Gujarati– Gujarati script Kannada– Kannada script Kashmiri– Perso-Arabic script Malayalam– Malayalam script Meitei– Meitei script Odia– Odia script Punjabi– Gurmukhi Santali– Ol Chiki script Sindhi– Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari Tamil– Tamil script Telugu– Telugu script Urdu– Urdu alphabet
- Islamic world: Afghanistan– Perso-Arabic Algeria– Arabic and Tifinagh Azerbaijan– Azeri Latin alphabet Bahrain– Arabic Bangladesh– Bengali alphabet Brunei– Rumi script (Latin) and Jawi script (Arabic) Egypt– Arabic Indonesia– Rumi script (Latin) Iran– Perso-Arabic Iraq– Arabic Jordan– Arabic Kazakhstan– Cyrillic (Kazakh, Russian) and Latin (Kazakh) Kuwait– Arabic Lebanon– Arabic Libya– Arabic Malaysia– Rumi script (Latin); Jawi script (Arabic) is recognized. Maldives– Thaana Oman– Arabic Palestine– Arabic Qatar– Arabic Saudi Arabia– Arabic Tunisia– Arabic Turkey– Latin alphabet United Arab Emirates– Arabic Yemen– Arabic
- Italy: Venetian (Official script of the Venetian language)
- Japan – a combination of Kana (Hiragana, Katakana) and Kanji (Shinjitai)
- Korea (both)– Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul (Hanja is sometime used in South Korea, not used in North Korea)
- Laos– Lao script
- Malta– Latin script
- Moldova– Latin alphabet
- Mongolia– Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet and Mongolian script
- Montenegro– Cyrillic (Montenegrin alphabet)
- Myanmar– Burmese alphabet
- Nepal Nepali language— Devanagari Nepal Bhasa— Ranjana script Maithili— Tirhuta script and Kaithi Bhojpuri language— Kaithi and Devanagari Tharu— Devanagari Tamang— Tamyig, Devanagari and Tibetan script Bajjika— Tirhuta script, Kaithi and Devanagari Limbu— Limbu script Bantawa— Kirat Rai script and Devanagari Gurung— Khema script, Devanagari and Tibetan script Awadhi— Kaithi, Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari and Latin script Urdu— Urdu alphabet, Roman Urdu and Urdu Braille
- North Macedonia– Cyrillic (Macedonian alphabet)
- Philippines– Latin alphabet (de facto)
- Russian Federation– Cyrillic (Russian alphabet)
- Serbia– Cyrillic (Serbian alphabet)
- Singapore English, Malay— Latin script Mandarin– Simplified Chinese Tamil– Tamil script
- Slovakia– Latin script
- Taiwan– Traditional Chinese
- Thailand– Thai script
- Ukraine– Cyrillic (Ukrainian alphabet)
- United Kingdom – Latin script
- Vietnam– Latin script (de facto)
Historical
- In the USSR, numerous languages were latinized during the 1920s–1930s. In the late 1930s the Latinization campaign was canceled and all newly romanized languages were converted to Cyrillic.