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Cyrillic vs Latin

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Latn

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Latin is a Living Left-to-right script from European (1,492 Unicode characters) used by 515 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right. 7 languages are written in both scripts.

Cyrillic
Привет мир
Кириллица
Latin
Hello World

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cyrillic Latin
ISO Code Cyrl Latn
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European European
Characters 508 1,492
Languages 61 515
Script Type Alphabet Alphabet
Descended From Greek Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
Total Speakers ~285.5M ~2.2B
Introduced 940 CE 700 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+0041–U+007A
U+00AA–U+00F6
U+00F8–U+01BA
U+01BB–U+01C3
U+01C4–U+0293
U+0294–U+02AF
U+02B0–U+02E4
U+1D00–U+1D77
U+1D79–U+1D9A
U+1D9B–U+1DBE
U+1E00–U+1EFF
U+2071–U+209C
U+212A–U+214E
U+2160–U+2188
U+2C60–U+2C7F
U+A722–U+A7FF
U+AB30–U+AB69
U+FB00–U+FB06
U+FF21–U+FF5A
U+10780–U+107BA
U+1DF00–U+1DF2A

Only in Cyrillic

54 languages
Abkhazian Adyghe Avaric Bashkir Belarusian Bulgarian Buriat Chechen Church Slavic Chuvash Crimean Tatar Dargwa Erzya Ingush Kabardian Kalmyk Karachay-Balkar Kazakh Komi Komi-Permyak Kumyk Lezghian Macedonian Mari Moksha Mongolian Nogai Ossetic Russian Rusyn

Used by Both

7 languages
Bosnian Kara-Kalpak Kyrgyz Serbian Tajik Turkmen Uzbek

Only in Latin

508 languages
Acehnese Acoli Adangme Afar Afrikaans Aghem Akan Akoose Alabama Albanian Aleut Anii Ao Naga Aragonese Araona Arapaho Arawak Aromanian Arpitan Asturian Asu Atikamekw Atsam Aymara Azerbaijani Bafia Bafut Balinese Bambara Banjar

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