Cypriot syllabary vs Devanagari (Nagari)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cprt vs ISO Deva

Cypriot syllabary is a Historical Right-to-left script from European used by 1 language. Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cypriot syllabary reads Right-to-left, while Devanagari (Nagari) reads Left-to-right.

𐠀𐠁𐠂
नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cypriot syllabary Devanagari (Nagari)
ISO Code Cprt Deva
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Historical Living
Region European South Asian
Characters
Languages 1 61
Script Type Syllabary Abugida
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 800 BCE 1200 CE

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