Cypriot syllabary vs Greek

Writing system comparison · ISO Cprt vs ISO Grek

Cypriot syllabary is a Historical Right-to-left script from European used by 1 language. Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cypriot syllabary reads Right-to-left, while Greek reads Left-to-right.

𐠀𐠁𐠂
Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cypriot syllabary Greek
ISO Code Cprt Grek
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Historical Living
Region European European
Characters 518
Languages 1 5
Script Type Syllabary Alphabet
Descended From Phoenician
Total Speakers ~13M
Introduced 800 BCE 800 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0370–U+03FF
U+1D26–U+1D6A
U+1DBF–U+1DBF
U+1F00–U+1FFE
U+2126–U+2126
U+AB65–U+AB65
U+10140–U+1018E
U+101A0–U+101A0
U+1D200–U+1D245

Only in Cypriot syllabary

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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