What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Phoenician read?

Phoenician reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Phoenician have?

Phoenician has 29 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Phoenician

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Phnx

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Phoenician is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (29 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Phoenician

𐤀𐤁𐤂

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Phoenician
ISO Code	Arab	Phnx
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	1,413	29
Languages	60	1
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Nabataean	—
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	1050 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+10900–U+1091F

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 Phoenician

1 language