What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) read?

Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) have?

Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) has character count data not available.

Arabic vs Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Ital

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) is a Historical Right-to-left script from European used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
ISO Code	Arab	Ital
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	European
Characters	1,413	—
Languages	60	0
Script Type	Abjad	Alphabet
Descended From	Nabataean	Greek
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	700 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

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 Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)