Bengali (Bangla) vs Kannada

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Knda

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Kannada is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (92 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

হ্যালো বিশ্ব
বাংলা লিপি
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Kannada
ISO Code Beng Knda
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 92
Languages 11 2
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~249M ~44M
Introduced 1000 CE 1500 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0C80–U+0CF3

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Kannada

2 languages

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