What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Gothic read?

Gothic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Gothic have?

Gothic has 27 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Gothic

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Goth

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Gothic is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (27 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Gothic

𐌰𐌱𐌲

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Gothic
ISO Code	Cyrl	Goth
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	European
Characters	508	27
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	Greek	Greek
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	350 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+10330–U+1034A