Linguistics • • By LetterGen Team

The Alphabet Beyond Latin: Scripts, Glyphs, and Unicode Standards

From Cyrillic and Greek to Arabic and Devanagari: how modern digital standards encode human language.

The Alphabet Beyond Latin: Scripts, Glyphs, and Unicode Standards

While our generator focuses primarily on the 26 Latin letters, the Unicode standard encodes over 150 scripts and 149,000 characters.

Script Families

  • Alphabets: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek (distinct vowel and consonant glyphs)
  • Abjads: Arabic, Hebrew (primarily consonant glyphs, vowels denoted by diacritics)
  • Abugidas: Devanagari, Bengali (consonant-vowel units)