Batak vs Hebrew

Writing system comparison · ISO Batk vs ISO Hebr

Batak is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (56 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Batak reads Left-to-right, while Hebrew reads Right-to-left.

ᯅᯖ᯳
שלום עולם
כתב עברי

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Batak Hebrew
ISO Code Batk Hebr
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region Southeast Asian Middle Eastern
Characters 56 134
Languages 0 5
Script Type Abugida Abjad
Descended From Brahmi Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+1BC0–U+1BFF
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F

Only in Batak

0 languages
None unique

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.