Figure 1 World Scripts

European
     Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Roman
Indic
     Northern
          Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Oriya
     Southern
          Kannada (Kanarese), Malayalam, Sinhalese, Tamil,
          Telugu
     Southeast
          Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Thai
     Central Asian
          Tibetan
Middle Eastern
     Arabic, Hebrew
East Asian (Oriental)
     Han, Bopomofo, Kana (Hiragana + Katakana), Hangul
Other Asian
     Lanna Thai, Mangyan, Mongolian, Naxi, Pollard, Pahawh
     Hmong, Tai L, Tai Na, Yi
African
     Ethiopian, Osmanya, Tifinagh, Vai
Native American
     Cree
Miscellaneous
     Chemistry, Mathematics, Publishing Symbols, IPA
     (International Phonetic Alphabet)