Coptic vs Ethiopic (Geʻez)

Writing system comparison · ISO Copt vs ISO Ethi

Coptic is a Liturgical Left-to-right script from African (137 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Ethiopic (Geʻez) is a Living Left-to-right script from African used by 6 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Ϩⲉⲗⲗⲟ
Ⲁⲗⲫⲁⲃⲏⲧⲟⲥ
ሰላም
ግዕዝ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Coptic Ethiopic (Geʻez)
ISO Code Copt Ethi
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Liturgical Living
Region African African
Characters 137
Languages 0 6
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Greek Old South Arabian
Total Speakers ~41M
Introduced 200 CE 350 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+03E2–U+03EF
U+2C80–U+2CFF

Only in Coptic

0 languages
None unique

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Ethiopic (Geʻez)

6 languages

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