{"id":4374,"date":"2013-08-16T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2013-08-16T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:39:41","slug":"writing-systems-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Systems of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4375\" alt=\"writing systems of the world\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world.png\" width=\"2486\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world.png 2486w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/writing-systems-of-the-world-500x243.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2486px) 100vw, 2486px\" \/><\/a>This map published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/files\/2013\/08\/WritingSystemsoftheWorld4-1.png\">Washington Post<\/a> shows the different writing systems used around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_alphabet\">Latin alphabet<\/a> is by far the most common used alphabet, from Europe to the Americas to Africa and Australia. The two other writing systems widely used are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic_alphabet\">Arabic<\/a>, used in the Middle East and Northern Africa, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyrillic_alphabets\">Cyrillic<\/a> used in Russia and other countries formerly part of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map published by the Washington Post shows the different writing systems used around the world. The Latin alphabet is by far the most common used alphabet, from Europe to the Americas to Africa and Australia. The two other writing systems widely used are Arabic, used in the Middle East and Northern Africa, and Cyrillic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Writing Systems of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/writing-systems-of-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,77,32,30],"tags":[1232,1231,1230,1229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}