Do some languages not have writing systems?

There are in fact a number of languages with over 20 million speakers that have no standard written form. The main examples are the various Chinese varieties. Only Mandarin, Cantonese and to a far lesser degree Hokkien have a written tradition.

Which language is spoken but not written?

According to Wiki: The world’s most widely spoken languages all have written forms… The Piraha have no written language.

Is Sanskrit deciphered?

Sanskrit does not have an attested native script: from around the turn of the 1st-millennium CE, it has been written in various Brahmic scripts, and in the modern era most commonly in Devanagari….

Did the Apache have a written language?

The only writing system native to Western Apache is a system of symbols created in 1904 by Silas John Edwards to record 62 prayers that he believed came to him from heaven. A Silas John prayer-text is a set of graphic symbols written on buckskin or paper.

Is there any language that has no written form?

Answer Wiki. There are in fact a number of languages with over 20 million speakers that have no standard written form. The main examples are the various Chinese varieties. Only Mandarin, Cantonese and to a far lesser degree Hokkien have a written tradition.

What are the different writing systems used in different languages?

Some languages have been written with a number of different writing systems over the years. For example, in Central Asia many languages were originally written with the Arabic alphabet, then switched to the Latin alphabet during the 1920s, then to the Cyrillic alphabet during the 1930s or 1940s.

Are there any languages that don’t have written traditions?

Only Mandarin, Cantonese and to a far lesser degree Hokkien have a written tradition. Other major varieties of Chinese, such as Shanghainese, Hunanese and Hakka, are barely if ever written: speakers write in Modern Standard Mandarin instead. The situation for the varieties of Arabic is similar.

What is the most widely used sign language without a writing system?

If you mean ‘without a writing system commonly used by the community itself’, then American Sign Language (ASL) may be a contender. There have been various writing systems devised for notating signed languages in general and ASL in particular, but they are unwieldy and, to my knowledge, not much used by ASL users.