Arabic vs Lepcha (Róng)

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Lepc

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

مرحبا بالعالم
العربية
ᰛᰩᰴ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Arabic Lepcha (Róng)
ISO Code Arab Lepc
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern South Asian
Characters 1,413
Languages 60 1
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Nabataean Brahmi
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.