Safely getting rid of unused fonts

I just replaced my hard drive and with that came the latest OSX version and I noticed in fontbook that out of the 182 fonts installed in the standard OSX install 109 are not english fonts -- I'm never going to use these non- english fonts but having them installed means endless scrolling to find the few fonts I will use.
How can I safely get rid of these unusable fonts?

See this article:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

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