Tibetan

Tibetan inscriptions date back to the 7th and 8th century. The origin of the Tibetan script is somewhat unknown. There are a few places that are thought to be the origin of it, but no-one knows which yet. However the script's structure shows us that it's ancestor is the Brahmi script of India.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Tibetan. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/tibetan.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 22:21pm

Takri 

The Takri script derives from the Sarada script and was used in the western regions of the Himalayas. By the early 20th century, the Takri script has been replaced by Devanagari.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Takri. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/takri.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:48pm

Phoenician

Many modern scripts can be traced through the Phoenician language, in fact Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek are all descended from the Phoenician Language. Phoenician is a direct descendent of the Proto-Sinaitic script. Similar to Proto-Sintaic, Phoenician is a "consonantal alphabet" that contains only letters representing consonants.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Phoenician. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/phoenician.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:26pm

Aramaic

Aramaic was an international language that was used for trade in the ancient Middle East. The Aramaic language originated in what is now modern-day Syria, between 1000 and 600 BC. It spread over a great mass of land and became spoken from the Mediterranean coast to the borders of India. Derived from Phoenician, the Aramaic script became extremely popular and was adopted by all kinds of people, from those with a previous writing system to those without.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Aramaic. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/aramaic.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:00pm

Turkic Runes

Used in the 8th to 9th century AD this script was written from right to left but was also found written from top and bottom.  This script was found in Central Asia. At first glance this script looks like it was derived from the Futhark script or German Runes. However the visual style of the script is more from the result of carving the letters on a hard surface instead of having a link to the Futhark script.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Turkic. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/turkic_runes.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 13:16pm

Latin

Latin was the native language of Rome. When the Etruscans came they starting writing the language. Hundred years later they took their written language wherever they conquered. Because the Roman Empire was prestigious many barbarian tribes used Latin for court and adopted their alphabet to write their own language. This meant that Western Europeans all wrote using the Latin alphabet.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Latin. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/latin.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:57pm

Old Norse

This was the language of the Vikings a North Germany language which was once spoken in Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, parts of Russia, the Faroe islands and Britain. Icelandic is the language that exists today that is closer to the Old Norse script. The written form has not changed a lot during the years ehile the spoken language has changed considerably .

Simon Ager. 2014

Old Norse. Omniglot [Online]

Available at http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldnorse.htm

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:45pm

Greek 

The Greeks were the first one in Europe to learn how to write with an alphabet. This script was used from 800 BC and is still being used in the present. From the Greeks writing with an alphabet spread through Europe which eventually lead down to the modern alphabet. The Greek adopted the alphabet from the Phoenician script. The Greek script started out being written from right – to left just like the Phoenician script. By time this changed and the script started being written ‘boustrophedon’ which means the direction of the writing changes in every line.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Greek. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:34pm

Egyptian hieroglyphs

One of the oldest systems in the world, the hieroglyphs have no detectible predecessor. They were thought that the hieroglyphs were written for religious and historical purposes but recent studies state they were more economical and can be dated further back in time. 

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Egyptian. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/egyptian.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:28pm

Gothic

The Goths were one of the most important of the so called “barbarian” tribes that were responsible for the downfall of the Roman Empire and Medieval Europe Politics. When the Goths were starting to become Christianised which was in the 4th Century AD , they wrote the Goth Language. A Greek missionary that was responsible of the conversion of the Goths into Christianity took the Greek language and added letters from the Futhark and Latin alphabets and created the Gothic language.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Gothic. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/gothic.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:15pm

Arabic

The Arabic alphabet is influenced by Islam and is used mostly in West Asia and Africa.  The Arabic script was used from the 3rd century AD and is still used today. The alphabet is one of the most widespread languages used nowadays. While the Arabic alphabet was used originally to the Arabic language it has since then been adapted to many other languages such as Maltese, Persian and many more. The script is written from right to left as opposed to normal scripts.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Arabic. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/arabic.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:03pm

Thai

This script is written from left to write and was used from 1283 AD and is still used today. The alphabet is found in Thailand. The script is a syllabic alphabet that is based on the Brahmi script which was adapted to write Thai. The invention of the Thai script is credited to King Ramkhamhaeng who reigned from 1257 to 1317 and also might have an influence from the Khmer alphabet. The oldest Thai inscriptions found date back from 1283.

Lawrence Lo. (No Date)

Thai. Ancient Scripts [Online]

Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/thai.html

Accessed on 12th June 2014, 11:54am