Bengali (Bangla) vs Cham

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Cham

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Cham is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (83 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

হ্যালো বিশ্ব
বাংলা লিপি
ꨌꩌ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Cham
ISO Code Beng Cham
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 83
Languages 11 1
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+AA00–U+AA5F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Cham

1 language

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