Arabic vs Masaram Gondi

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Gonm

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Masaram Gondi is a Living Left-to-right script (75 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Arabic reads Right-to-left, while Masaram Gondi reads Left-to-right.

مرحبا بالعالم
العربية

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Arabic Masaram Gondi
ISO Code Arab Gonm
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern
Characters 1,413 75
Languages 60 0
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
U+11D00–U+11D59

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