Bengali (Bangla) vs Kayah Li

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Kali

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Kayah Li is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (47 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

হ্যালো বিশ্ব
বাংলা লিপি
ꤊꤢꤛꤢꤩ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Kayah Li
ISO Code Beng Kali
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 47
Languages 11 2
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+A900–U+A92F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Kayah Li

2 languages

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