Bengali (Bangla) vs Hanifi Rohingya

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Rohg

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Hanifi Rohingya is a Living Right-to-left script from South Asian (50 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Bengali (Bangla) reads Left-to-right, while Hanifi Rohingya reads Right-to-left.

হ্যালো বিশ্ব
বাংলা লিপি
𐴆𐴝𐴋𐴞𐴌𐴟𐴌

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Hanifi Rohingya
ISO Code Beng Rohg
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 50
Languages 11 1
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Arabic
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE 1400 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10D00–U+10D39

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Hanifi Rohingya

1 language

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