What direction does Avestan read?

Avestan reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Avestan have?

Avestan has 61 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

Avestan vs Cyrillic

Writing system comparison · ISO Avst vs ISO Cyrl

Avestan is a Liturgical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (61 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Avestan reads Right-to-left, while Cyrillic reads Left-to-right.

Avestan

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Cyrillic

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Avestan	Cyrillic
ISO Code	Avst	Cyrl
Direction	Right-to-left	Left-to-right
Status	Liturgical	Living
Region	Middle Eastern	European
Characters	61	508
Languages	1	61
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	—	Greek
Total Speakers	—	~285.5M
Introduced	400 CE	940 CE
Unicode Ranges	U+10B00–U+10B3F	U+0400–U+0489 U+048A–U+052F U+1C80–U+1C8A U+1D2B–U+1D78 U+2DE0–U+2DFF U+A640–U+A69F U+FE2E–U+FE2F U+1E030–U+1E08F