Bengali (Bangla) vs Meroitic Cursive

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Merc

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Meroitic Cursive is a Living Left-to-right script (90 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Meroitic Cursive
ISO Code Beng Merc
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian
Characters 90
Languages 11 1
Script Type Abugida Logographic
Descended From Brahmi Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+109A0–U+109FF

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Meroitic Cursive

1 language

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