What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Inscriptional Parthian read?

Inscriptional Parthian reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Inscriptional Parthian have?

Inscriptional Parthian has 30 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Inscriptional Parthian

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Prti

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Inscriptional Parthian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (30 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Inscriptional Parthian reads Right-to-left.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Inscriptional Parthian
ISO Code	Cyrl	Prti
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Middle Eastern
Characters	508	30
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	200 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+10B40–U+10B5F