Writing Systems Quiz

Writing Systems Quiz is an invitation to look into the fascinating origins of world alphabets and scripts of the world. Long before smartphones, ancient Sumerians created cuneiform by pressing wedge shapes into clay tablets, making it the world’s oldest writing system. Imagine using a stylus made from reeds found near the river to keep track of sheep or grains. The trivia doesn’t stop there; cuneiform was so flexible that it could spell words in a dozen languages without ever having true alphabet letters. Today, tracing the evolution from pictographs to scripts stretches all over the globe, from logographic script inventors to the creators of Korean Hangul script. The quiz celebrates this journey through symbols, syllables, and alphabets of every kind.

Writing Systems

Which script is used to write the English language?

Cyrillic

Greek

Arabic

Latin

Which script is primarily used to write the Russian language?

Cyrillic

Latin

Arabic

Devanagari

Which of the following is an example of a logographic script?

Devanagari

Latin

Chinese

Arabic

Which script is used for the Korean language?

Katakana

Hangul

Hanzi

Devanagari

Which is the world’s most widely used writing system?

Cyrillic

Chinese characters

Arabic

Latin

Which type of script is the Latin alphabet?

Alphabet

Logographic

Abjad

Syllabary

Which script, angular and ancient, once marked Viking stones and sagas?

Latin

Greek

Runic

Hebrew

Which Japanese script was developed for simplicity, with each character representing a syllable, not an idea?

Hiragana

Kanji

Katakana

Hangul

Japanese kana is an example of which writing system?

Alphabetic

Logographic

Featural

Syllabary

What is a defining feature of an abugida writing system?

Characters represent words

Characters represent consonant-vowel combinations

Characters represent only consonants

Characters represent single phonemes only

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Sample Questions from This Quiz

Which script is used to write the English language?
Which script is primarily used to write the Russian language?
Which of the following is an example of a logographic script?
Which script is used for the Korean language?
Which is the world’s most widely used writing system?

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