Did you know that there are 293 writing systems in the world?
source: worldswritingsystems.org
Of all the systems, the Latin alphabet is used by 4.9 billion people (70% of the world's population)
Latin – 4.9 billion (English, Spanish, Vietnamese)
Chinese (Han) – 1.54 billion (China, Japan, Korea)
Arabic – 828 million (Middle East, North Africa)
Devanagari – 480 million (Hindi, Nepali)
Cyrillic – 350 million (Russian, Ukrainian)
Bengali – 300 million (Bangladesh, India)
Japanese Kana – 123 million (Japan)
Telugu – 83 million (southern India)
Hangul – 81 million (Korea)
Tamil – 78 million (India, Sri Lanka)
And did you know that only about half (162) of all writing systems can be typed in Unicode?
Combining this information with what I learned about 50% of all information online being in English, I kinda think my late in life purpose might be helping endangered scripts figure out how to digitize themsevles, because apparently it's a really long process and the unicode consortium has to be asked to include you they won't just find you
Sometimes though indigenous languages do not want to be found, an example of this I read about is Nigerian Nsibidi an indigenous system from southeastern Nigeria that's been around since anywhere from 1400 BC to 400 AD and is primarily an ideograph or pictograph rather than an alphabet
Apparently because it is highly contextual to their society and especially used to be used for secret societies. Cool
