Arabic vs Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Hmnp

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong is a Living Left-to-right script from American (71 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Arabic reads Right-to-left, while Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong reads Left-to-right.

مرحبا بالعالم
العربية

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Arabic Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
ISO Code Arab Hmnp
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern American
Characters 1,413 71
Languages 60 0
Script Type Abjad Alphabet
Descended From Nabataean
Total Speakers ~291M
Introduced 400 CE 2001 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+1E100–U+1E14F

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