Avestan vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Avst vs ISO Thai

Avestan is a Liturgical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (61 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Avestan reads Right-to-left, while Thai reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Avestan Thai
ISO Code Avst Thai
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Liturgical Living
Region Middle Eastern Southeast Asian
Characters 61 86
Languages 1 7
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Khmer
Total Speakers ~60M
Introduced 400 CE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10B00–U+10B3F
U+0E01–U+0E5B

Only in Avestan

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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