What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Linear B read?

Linear B reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Linear B have?

Linear B has 211 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Linear B

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Linb

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Linear B is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (211 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Linear B

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Linear B
ISO Code	Cyrl	Linb
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	European
Characters	508	211
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Syllabary
Descended From	Greek	—
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	1400 BCE
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+10000–U+1005D U+10080–U+100FA