Bengali (Bangla) vs Yezidi

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Yezi

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Yezidi is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (47 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Bengali (Bangla) reads Left-to-right, while Yezidi reads Right-to-left.

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Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Yezidi
ISO Code Beng Yezi
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Middle Eastern
Characters 47
Languages 11 0
Script Type Abugida Abjad
Descended From Brahmi Arabic
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10E80–U+10EB1

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Yezidi

0 languages
None unique

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