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Why not.

Term: In three months.

So first we need to do some research, and then learn it.

The hardest will be Yi syllabary.

Thanks for the comments!

hmm actually I forgot to mention that I am already familiar with maybe 20 scripts, including the hardest one – Chinese.

So accoring to omniglot, and my research:

Americas: Latin (other writing systems don't exceed one million)

Oceania: Latin

Europe: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic

I know them all already.

So we have Africa and Asia left.

We will start with Africa, since it's easier :

Arabic – already known

Latin – Already known

Berber – unknown

Ge'ez (Ethiopia, Eritrea) – unknown

What else?

Somali used Osmanya before – so people may be familar with it.

Nsibidi – ancient Nigerian script – but used only by few people unlikely to exceed 1 mln.

N'ko – maybe

Thanks for the responses.

Actually I am not going only the script – I want to know enough of the languages to have something to write it with.

Even if it's very basic!

Actually I am already familiar with the Devanagari and Hebrew (except for the vowel marks).

I agree about the India – I think there is over 10 scripts in India alone, and few others in South East Asia.

TO the Julius: Thanks for the offer of Hebrew!

I ned to get familiar with the vowels yet.

Talking about varieties – I think I don't need to learn it, every language has a different phonology, and different languages use the script in a different way – I think it's enough to know the script with a basics of one language.

Hmm, I am afraid I forgot about Coptic when talking about Africa!

well, what about Asia?

Georgian, Armenian, Assyrian – Middle East and Causasus Mountains.

Cyrillic – known.

Mongolian-manchu -  Inner Mongolia.

Korea – Hangul – know

Japanese – Hiragana- Katakana – kanji – know

China – hanzi (know), Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi,

3 Tai script (none of them exceeds 1 000 000 users).

Dongba – only shamans use it.

sawndip – Zhuang people (I have a dictionary of it, may try to learn few signs)

Pollard – may need to learn it! a script invented by a Missionary for Hmong people.

LISU – does not exceed 1 million.

The rest will be posted later!

First mini challenge – learn Yi Syllabary

I downloaded the chart – I will be crossing out the characters I have learned

so far it is 42.

Number of challengers: 33

Names:

N'ko

Ge'ez

Tamazight

Georgian

Armenian

Hebrew

Syrian

Bengali

Modi

Tamil

Malayalam

Telugu

Kannada

Yi

Tibetan

Lanna

Cambodian

Buginese

Javanese

Punjabi

Gujarati

Mongolian

Sinhala

Hmong Pollard

Zhuang

Tagalog

Georgian 2

Gergian 3

and that would be that.

Stuck with Bengali due to the lack of resources.

ꆈꌠꁱꂷꆹꃪꃅꌷ!

Few more Yi characters

I have downloaded Byki for Bengali, so maybe It shall make it easier.

Of course the Traditional script – I alraedy know Cyrillic.

I think Hebrew look nice too, but the letters are often confusing – look similar (d vs r, ts vs glotal stop).

I have somewhat mastered Tifinagh – the script of Tamazigh people!

Also somewhat mastered Coptic – Used by Egyptian Christians!

And I can also somewhat read Bengali, but not well yet .

I think I need to add Zhuyin to the list – it's used by ~20 mln of people.

Update: Completed Tifinagh.

With the exception of some local characters, I have learned the Moroccan set.

Africa:

Amharic:

Tried to play a little with fidel, quite hard it is.

Coptic: still have problem with few letters.

Middle East:

Hebrew: Can recognize most vowels, but not yet cleared.

Assyrian: tried to learn before but forgot.

Caucasus:

Gergian: I know maybe half of the letters.

Armenian: only few letters

North Asia:

Mongolian: I am almost there.

Pollard Miao: I tried to dabble with it yesterday.

South East Asia:

Zhuang: no progress, I know few chars.

Yi: big progress – maybe over 200 chars learned.

Bopomofo: learned before but forgot.

Cambodian: played a little with it.

Baybayin: I am almost there.

Sundanese: added a course on memrise, I hope to learn some of it.

Balinese/Javanese: no progress.

Buginese: no progress

South Asia:

Dhivehi: played a little, but forgot

Sinhala: no progress

Tamil: know a little here and there

Malayalam: no progress

Telugu: no progress

Kannada: no progress

Oriya: no progress

Gujarati: played a bit before

Punjabi: played a little more  than Gujarati before.

Bengali: can read most basic letters.