What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Syriac read?

Syriac reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Syriac have?

Syriac has 88 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Syriac

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Syrc

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Syriac is a Liturgical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (88 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Syriac

ܫܠܡܐ

ܐܠܦܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Syriac
ISO Code	Arab	Syrc
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Liturgical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	1,413	88
Languages	60	1
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Nabataean	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	200 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+0700–U+074F U+0860–U+086A

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 Syriac

1 language