Ahom, Tai Ahom vs Arabic

Writing system comparison · ISO Ahom vs ISO Arab

Ahom, Tai Ahom is a Historical Left-to-right script from South Asian (65 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Ahom, Tai Ahom reads Left-to-right, while Arabic reads Right-to-left.

مرحبا بالعالم
العربية

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Ahom, Tai Ahom Arabic
ISO Code Ahom Arab
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Historical Living
Region South Asian Middle Eastern
Characters 65 1,413
Languages 0 60
Script Type Abugida Abjad
Descended From Brahmi Nabataean
Total Speakers ~291M
Introduced 400 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0600–U+06FF
U+0750–U+077F
U+0870–U+089F
U+08A0–U+08FF
U+FB50–U+FDFF
U+FE70–U+FEFC
U+10E60–U+10E7E
U+10EC2–U+10EFF
U+1EE00–U+1EEF1

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