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Alphabets

Every letter of 16 writing systems, with what each one is called and roughly how it sounds. The scripts here are the ones you cannot guess your way through.

• 🇬🇷 Greek Greek 24 letters
• 🇷🇺 Russian Cyrillic 33 letters
• 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Cyrillic 33 letters
• 🇧🇬 Bulgarian Cyrillic 30 letters
• 🇲🇰 Macedonian Cyrillic 31 letters
• 🇮🇱 Hebrew Hebrew 22 letters
• 🇦🇲 Armenian Armenian 39 letters
• 🇬🇪 Georgian Georgian 33 letters
• 🇰🇷 Korean Hangul 24 letters
• ا Arabic Arabic 28 letters
• 🇮🇷 Persian Arabic 32 letters
• 🇮🇳 Hindi Devanagari 44 letters
• 🇧🇩 Bengali Bengali 43 letters
• த Tamil Tamil 30 letters
• త Telugu Telugu 47 letters
• മ Malayalam Malayalam 49 letters

Beginner's guides

How each script works, the letters that trip people up, and a plan to learn it.

• The Arabic alphabet
• The Armenian alphabet
• The Bengali alphabet
• The Bulgarian alphabet
• The Georgian alphabet
• The Greek alphabet
• The Hebrew alphabet
• The Hindi alphabet
• The Korean alphabet
• The Malayalam alphabet
• The Persian alphabet
• The Russian alphabet
• The Ukrainian alphabet

Chinese is missing on purpose: it has no alphabet, and a list of letters is the wrong shape for it. The Latin-script languages are missing for the opposite reason — if you are reading this you already have their letters.