What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Nabataean read?

Nabataean reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Nabataean have?

Nabataean has 40 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Nabataean

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Nbat

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Nabataean is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (40 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Nabataean

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Nabataean
ISO Code	Arab	Nbat
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	1,413	40
Languages	60	0
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Nabataean	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	200 BCE
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+10880–U+108AF

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 Nabataean