Bengali (Bangla) vs Malayalam

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Mlym

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Malayalam is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (118 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Malayalam
ISO Code Beng Mlym
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 118
Languages 11 1
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Grantha
Total Speakers ~249M ~35M
Introduced 1000 CE 830 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0D00–U+0D7F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Malayalam

1 language

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