What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Mongolian read?

Mongolian reads Top-to-bottom (TTB).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Mongolian have?

Mongolian has 168 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Mongolian

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Mong

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Mongolian is a Living Top-to-bottom script from Central Asian (168 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Mongolian reads Top-to-bottom.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Mongolian

ᠰᠠᠢᠨ ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠨᠠ ᠤᠤ

ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Mongolian
ISO Code	Cyrl	Mong
Direction	Left-to-right	Top-to-bottom
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	Central Asian
Characters	508	168
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	—
Descended From	Greek	Old Uyghur
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	1204 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+1800–U+18AA U+11660–U+1166C