Cyrillic vs Kannada

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Knda

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Kannada is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (92 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Привет мир
Кириллица
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cyrillic Kannada
ISO Code Cyrl Knda
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European South Asian
Characters 508 92
Languages 61 2
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Greek Brahmi
Total Speakers ~285.5M ~44M
Introduced 940 CE 1500 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+0C80–U+0CF3

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