What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Glagolitic read?

Glagolitic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Glagolitic have?

Glagolitic has 134 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Glagolitic

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Glag

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Glagolitic is a Liturgical Left-to-right script from European (134 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Glagolitic

ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ

Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⰰ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Glagolitic
ISO Code	Cyrl	Glag
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Liturgical
Region	European	European
Characters	508	134
Languages	61	0
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	Greek	Greek
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	862 CE
Unicode Ranges	U+0400–U+0489 U+048A–U+052F U+1C80–U+1C8A U+1D2B–U+1D78 U+2DE0–U+2DFF U+A640–U+A69F U+FE2E–U+FE2F U+1E030–U+1E08F	U+2C00–U+2C5F U+1E000–U+1E02A

Only in Cyrillic

61 languages

Abkhazian Adyghe Avaric Bashkir Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Buriat Chechen Church Slavic Chuvash Crimean Tatar Dargwa Erzya Ingush Kabardian Kalmyk Kara-Kalpak Karachay-Balkar Kazakh Komi Komi-Permyak Kumyk Kyrgyz Lezghian Macedonian Mari Moksha Mongolian Nogai

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Glagolitic