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Most popular writing systems

Can you name the 30 most commonly used writing systems in the world?
Source: worldatlas.com 2019
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Last updated: January 25, 2023
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First submittedJanuary 25, 2023
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Script
Users (m)
1
Latin
4900+
2
Chinese
1340
3
Arabic
660+
4
Devanagari
608+
5
Bengali-Assamese
300
6
Cyrillic
250
7
Kana
120
8
Javanese
80
9
Hangul
78.7
10
Telugu
74
11
Tamil
70
12
Gujarati
48
13
Kannada
45
14
Burmese
39
15
Malayalam
38
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Script
Users (m)
16
Thai
38
17
Sundanese
38
18
Gurmukhi
22
19
Lao
22
20
Odia
21
21
Ge'ez
18
22
Sinhala
14.4
23
Hebrew
14
24
Armenian
12
25
Khmer
11.4
26
Greek
11
27
Lontara
7.6
28
Tibetan
5
29
Georgian
4.5
30
Modern Yi
4
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2023
please add more typeins for devanagari lol i was so close to getting it
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2023
Done 👍
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Level 74
Jan 25, 2023
I wonder if braille would count, and if so where it would rank
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2023
It's quite hard to find data on how many people use/know braille. It might be higher in other countries but it's only about 10% of blind people in the UK/US