Adlam vs Ethiopic (Geʻez)

Writing system comparison · ISO Adlm vs ISO Ethi

Adlam is a Living Right-to-left script from African (88 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Ethiopic (Geʻez) is a Living Left-to-right script from African used by 6 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Adlam reads Right-to-left, while Ethiopic (Geʻez) reads Left-to-right.

𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥
ሰላም
ግዕዝ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Adlam Ethiopic (Geʻez)
ISO Code Adlm Ethi
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region African African
Characters 88
Languages 0 6
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Arabic Old South Arabian
Total Speakers ~41M
Introduced 1958 CE 350 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+1E900–U+1E95F

Only in Adlam

0 languages
None unique

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Ethiopic (Geʻez)

6 languages

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.