What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Lydian read?

Lydian reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Lydian have?

Lydian has 27 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Lydian

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Lydi

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Lydian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (27 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Lydian reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Lydian
ISO Code	Cyrl	Lydi
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Middle Eastern
Characters	508	27
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Phoenician
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	700 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+10920–U+1093F