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Why is Ethiopia shown as not having an alphabet? Surely Amharic is written with an abugida? 惑乱 分からん 12:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I guess it's because it classifies abugidas as not an alphabet, but if that is the case, then Arabic cannot be shown as an alphabet either as it is an abjad, not a true alphabet. Moreover, Eritrea does not use a latin script. It uses the Ge'ez abugida (primarily) and also sometimes the Arabic abjad. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 22:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Then, it doesn't follow the distinction used in w:Writing_system#Types_of_writing_systems. Also, the Brahmi-derived scripts are clearly marked, although they are abugidas, as well. Personally, I think all phonetically representaive writing systems should be included, unlike the Chinese system, consisting largely of representations of abstract ideas. (OK, most of the characters are actually combinations of a rough phonetic representation, and a rough semantic representation.) 惑乱 分からん 17:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

North Korea should be marked 'other', as it doesn't use hanja. Japan should be marked 'no alphabet', as kana is in no stretch of the term an alphabet (unless you're counting romanization, but then the same could be said of mainland China). kwami 21:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Syllabary is not an alphabet

Japan should be shaded with the same color as China. The syllabary is not an alphabet. Japan like China uses no alphabet. --75.34.4.212 21:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Fixed Japan. --Naus 21:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Serbia uses Cyrillic only

Serbia uses Cyrillic only (article 10 in Consititution of Serbia http://www.parliament.gov.rs/content/eng/akta/ustav/ustav_1.asp). Montenegro uses Cyrillic and Latin (article 9 in Consititution of Montenegro http://www.montenet.org/law/ustav.htm). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kacnepcku-Cp6uja (talk • contribs) 00:27, 6 December 2009 (UTC)