How many different alphabets are there?
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The alphabet of modern Western Europe is the Roman alphabet, the base of most alphabets used for the newly written languages of Africa and America, as well as for scientific alphabets. Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and many languages of the former Soviet Union are written in the Cyrillic alphabet, an augmented Greek alphabet. Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic all have their own alphabets. The most important writing of India is the Devanagari, an alphabet with syllabic features; this, invented probably for Sanskrit, is the source of a number of Asian scripts. Two European alphabets of the late Roman era were the runes and the ogham . An exotic modern system is the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah , suggested by, but not based on, the Roman alphabet. Another was the short-lived Mormon Deseret alphabet.
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