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role="main"> <div class="row"> <p id="post-modified-info">Last updated: 26 October 2024</p> <div id="fws_6723f9ea104a3" data-column-margin="default" data-midnight="dark" class="wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><div class="row-bg-wrap" data-bg-animation="none" data-bg-animation-delay="" data-bg-overlay="false"><div class="inner-wrap row-bg-layer" ><div class="row-bg viewport-desktop" style=""></div></div></div><div class="row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left"> <div class="vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone " data-padding-pos="all" data-has-bg-color="false" data-bg-color="" data-bg-opacity="1" data-animation="" data-delay="0" > <div class="vc_column-inner" > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <h3 style="text-align: center;">The world’s scripts and alphabets</h3> <p>Speech, the universal way by which humans communicate, fades instantly: before a word is fully pronounced it has already vanished forever. Writing, the first technology to make the spoken word permanent, changed the human condition.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="fws_6723f9ea10a1e" data-column-margin="default" data-midnight="dark" class="wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><div class="row-bg-wrap" data-bg-animation="none" data-bg-animation-delay="" data-bg-overlay="false"><div class="inner-wrap row-bg-layer" ><div class="row-bg viewport-desktop" style=""></div></div></div><div class="row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left"> <div class="vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone " data-padding-pos="all" data-has-bg-color="false" data-bg-color="" data-bg-opacity="1" data-animation="" data-delay="0" > <div class="vc_column-inner" > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p>It was a revolution in communication when a script allowed individuals to share information without meeting face to face. Writing also made it possible to store information, creating a pool of knowledge well beyond the ability of any single human to master yet, at the same time, available to all. Writing is regarded as the threshold of history, because it ended the reliance upon oral tradition, with all the inaccuracies this entailed. Finally, among the innumerable benefits created by a script, writing allows us to capture our ideas when they arise and, in time, to sort and scrutinise, revise, add, subtract, and rectify them to arrive at a rigour of logic and a depth of thought that would otherwise be impossible.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="fws_6723f9ea10bf0" data-column-margin="default" data-midnight="dark" class="wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><div class="row-bg-wrap" data-bg-animation="none" data-bg-animation-delay="" data-bg-overlay="false"><div class="inner-wrap row-bg-layer" ><div class="row-bg viewport-desktop" style=""></div></div></div><div class="row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left"> <div class="vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone " data-padding-pos="all" data-has-bg-color="false" data-bg-color="" data-bg-opacity="1" data-animation="" data-delay="0" > <div class="vc_column-inner" > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p>Over the past millennia hundreds of different alphabets and scripts have been used all over the world. Some of them have disappeared while others still exist. On the outline map below you can see the distribution of the world鈥檚 most important scripts that are currently used.</p> </div> </div> <div class="img-with-aniamtion-wrap center" data-max-width="100%" data-max-width-mobile="default" data-shadow="none" data-animation="fade-in" > <div class="inner"> <div class="hover-wrap"> <div class="hover-wrap-inner"> <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="img-with-animation skip-lazy nectar-lazy" data-delay="0" height="1260" width="2000" data-animation="fade-in" data-nectar-img-src="https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world.jpg" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%202000%201260'%2F%3E" alt="" data-nectar-img-srcset="https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world.jpg 2000w, https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world-300x189.jpg 300w, https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world-768x484.jpg 768w, https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/alphabets-spread-around-the-world-1536x968.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " > <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p>A quick calculation shows that about 3 billion people (almost 40% of the world population) use the Latin alphabet, about 1.5 billion people (almost 20%) use the Chinese script, about 1 billion people (about 15%) use the Devanagari script (India), about 1 billion people (about 15%) use the Arabic alphabet, about 0.3 billion people (4%) use the Cyrillic alphabet and about 0.26 billion people (3.5%) use the Dravidian script (South India).</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer-outer" data-midnight="light" data-cols="4" data-custom-color="true" data-disable-copyright="false" data-matching-section-color="true" data-copyright-line="false" data-using-bg-img="false" data-bg-img-overlay="0.8" data-full-width="false" data-using-widget-area="false" data-link-hover="default"> <div class="row" id="copyright" data-layout="default"> <div class="container"> <div class="col span_5"> <p>漏 2003-2024 WorldStandards. 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