10 most difficult al­pha­bets riddles

Lorm is a hand-touch alphabet developed in the 19th century by Deafblind inventor and novelist Hieronymus Lorm and used in some countries in Europe.

The Kanji symbols are ancient and many are not used any more, though still valid. Therefore, Japanese Government specifies the "General Use Permanent Kanji", comprising 1945 characters, or which 996 are designated as to be learned in elementary school. Any publications using Kanji outside of this list are legally required to print the interpretation alongside the obscure Kanji symbol for clarification.

A dead language is a language that is no longer used as a means of communication. Aramaic has been in continuous use in the Middle East since the second millennium BC.

This traditional vertical script comes from the Mongol Empire and lasted until 1946 in Mongolia, when Cyrillic was introduced. It is still used in Inner Mongolia and other parts of China.

The Tibetan alphabet is very closely linked to a broad ethnic Tibetan identity, spanning across areas in Tibet, Bhutan, India and Nepal. The Tibetan alphabet is of Indic origin and it is ancestral to the Limbu alphabet, the Lepcha alphabet, and the multilingual 'Phags-pa script.

Braille characters have rectangular blocks called cells that have tiny bumps called raised dots. A full Braille cell includes six raised dots arranged in two columns, each having three dots. There are 64 different combinations possible (2 to sixth power) and all are used except the "blank" one - for letters, numbers, diacritical marks and mathematical symbols.

The modern Japanese writing system is a combination of three character types: logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic katakana and hirigana. There is also a romanization system called rōmaji, mostly used in materials for foreigners.

English ‘cat’ or “cat” is translated to French « chat » and German „katze“. Other countries typically use one of these styles. In many countries, English quotation marks are getting more and more popular due to widespread of English keyboards.

The Cyrillic script was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. Tradition holds that it was formalized by Saints Cyril and Methodius, who brought Christianity to the southern Slavs (and so the name is derived from Saint Cyril).

Hangul is one of the few alphabets that have been artificially created and have not evolved from hieroglyphics or ideograms, as has been the case with most modern writings. Words in this alphabet can be written horizontally or vertically, e.g.: 사자 (lion) and 봄 (spring).