Bengali (Bangla) vs Yi

Writing system comparison · ISO Beng vs ISO Yiii

Bengali (Bangla) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 11 languages. Yi is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (1,220 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

হ্যালো বিশ্ব
বাংলা লিপি
Yi
ꆈꌠꁱꂷ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Bengali (Bangla) Yi
ISO Code Beng Yiii
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian East Asian
Characters 1,220
Languages 11 1
Script Type Abugida Syllabary
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~249M
Introduced 1000 CE 2004 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+A000–U+A48C
U+A490–U+A4C6

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Yi

1 language

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