More map geekery here, this is a map of the world’s writing systems:

WritingSystemsOfTheWorld
By Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5], via Wikimedia Commons

Interesting note is Japanese might be the only writing system strictly limited to its respective country’s borders; Korean is a close second but not so precise; everywhere else language writing systems are very fluid and not bound by borders.

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