What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Inscriptional Parthian read?

Inscriptional Parthian reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Inscriptional Parthian have?

Inscriptional Parthian has 30 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Inscriptional Parthian

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Prti

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Inscriptional Parthian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (30 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Inscriptional Parthian

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Inscriptional Parthian
ISO Code	Arab	Prti
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	1,413	30
Languages	60	1
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Nabataean	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	200 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	U+10B40–U+10B5F

Only in Arabic

60 languages

Algerian Arabic Arabic Bakhtiari Baluchi Beja Brahui Central Kurdish Comorian Egyptian Arabic Gilaki Hausa Kashmiri Kazakh Khowar Kyrgyz Malay Mazanderani Moroccan Arabic Najdi Arabic Northern Luri Pashto Persian Sindhi Southern Kurdish Tachelhit Tajik Torwali Tunisian Arabic Turkmen Urdu

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Inscriptional Parthian

1 language

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Arabic vs Inscriptional Parthian

Side-by-Side Comparison

Only in Arabic

Used by Both

Only in Inscriptional Parthian

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