Bengali (Bangla) vs Cyrillic

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Cyrl

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Cyrillic
ISO Code Beng Cyrl
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian European
Characters 508
Languages 11 61
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Greek
Total Speakers ~249M ~285.5M
Introduced 1000 CE 940 CE
Unicode Ranges
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

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