World of Alphabets

Khonsu Development

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About this app

Learn alphabets, scripts, symbols, and writing systems from around the world in one app.

World of Alphabets helps you recognize and remember letters through flashcards, quizzes, pronunciation hints, and illustrated character forms. Study modern alphabets like Cyrillic, Hangul, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, and Thai, or explore ancient and symbolic systems including runes, hieroglyphs, cuneiform, Morse code, Braille, and semaphore.

With 267 writing systems in one place, the app is designed for travelers, language learners, students, linguistics enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how humans represent language visually.

Learn to recognize scripts used across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and historical civilizations. Train your memory through repetition and active recall instead of passively reading charts or cheat sheets.

WHAT YOU CAN LEARN

• Modern alphabets and scripts
• Ancient writing systems and historical scripts
• Syllabaries and symbolic systems
• Sign-based and tactile communication systems
• Fictional and constructed alphabets

Examples include:
Cyrillic, Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Phoenician, Glagolitic, Elder Futhark, Tengwar, Aurebesh, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Morse code, Braille, semaphore, and many more.

HOW THE APP WORKS

Each writing system includes its own study set.

Flashcards introduce characters using typed forms together with handwritten, illustrated, or signed variants where available. Quizzes reinforce recognition and recall using the same symbols you just studied.

Many systems also include pronunciation guidance, native names, and sound-focused learning cues to help connect symbols with language.

FEATURES

• 267 writing systems from around the world
• Flashcards for letters, symbols, syllables, and signs
• Quizzes for character recognition and memorization
• Typed and illustrated character forms where available
• Pronunciation hints for supported systems
• English and native-script naming support
• Ancient, modern, fictional, tactile, and symbolic systems in one catalog
• Works well for travel preparation, language study, and curiosity-driven learning

WHO THIS APP IS FOR

• Travelers and expats learning unfamiliar scripts
• Students preparing for language classes
• Teachers introducing alphabets and orthographies
• Polyglots and linguistics enthusiasts
• Fans of historical scripts, runes, and fictional alphabets
• Curious learners exploring global writing systems

WHY START WITH THE SCRIPT?

Learning letters first makes vocabulary and grammar easier later. Once a writing system becomes familiar, reading words stops feeling like decoding symbols and starts feeling natural.

WORLD OF ALPHABETS INCLUDES

Modern national scripts, historical alphabets, syllabaries, sign systems, tactile systems, and fictional writing systems.

64 writing systems that include illustrated or sign-style character forms:
American Sign Language, Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Asomtavruli, Aurebesh, Avestan, Avoiuli, Bamum, Bangla, Baybayin, Braille, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, Cherokee syllabary, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Eastern Syriac, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Elder Futhark, Flag semaphore, Futhorc, Ge'ez, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Javanese, Katakana, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Leet, Linear B, Lontara, Lycian, Lydian, Malayalam, Mandaic, Mayan hieroglyphs, Mkhedruli, Mongolian, Morse code, N'Ko, Neo-Tifinagh, Nuskhuri, Ogham, Old Hungarian, Old Italic, Old Turkic, Phoenician, PIqaD, Standard Galactic Alphabet, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Younger Futhark.

IMPORTANT

World of Alphabets teaches script and symbol recognition. It is not a full language-learning course and does not teach conversation, grammar, or vocabulary.

FEEDBACK

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Ratings and reviews

Has a great selection of alphabets, syllabries, and other writing modalities from other languages, and is a great resource to START learning writing systems- not comprehensivey. It categorizes them by type, even fictional. Although it doesn't have all 'alphabets' ready to learn yet , it seems they are working on updating it constantly and I'm excited to try it. My one detractor is audio doesn't always play, so I can't hear the sounds of some letters and I miss some questions during quizzes.

Fairly comprehensive. I used it to learn Devanagari, and was a bit frustrated to discover it didn't go into conjugations and letters with the vowel diacritics, meaning it really only gets you a portion of the way to reading Hindi. Similarly it'll start you towards Arabic but doesn't include all the letters in their four different forms. It does what it does well and I value its addition to my studies. I wish I could make my own flash card sets in this app to expand the Devanagari set.

I loved this app before it was overhauled, sadly now there's a few things wrong with it. The good thing is there's many more language writings to learn, though sadly the filters for the type of questions don't seem to work. I always select not to ask sound based questions, yet they keep showing up. This might seem minor but it's a huge inhibitor for me, and half the time the sound samples do not work either. I would love it if this gets fixed, as I used this app almost daily before the overhaul

What’s new

Welcome to World of Alphabets: a pocket atlas of writing systems.

Explore 267 scripts and symbol systems: modern alphabets, historical scripts, tactile systems, and even fictional alphabets.
Learn with flashcards, then test yourself with quick quizzes and recognition drills.
Pronunciation hints and native names (where available) help connect symbols to sound.

Questions, corrections, or suggestions? [e-mail]