Cyrillic vs Myanmar (Burmese)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Mymr

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Myanmar (Burmese) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 4 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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မင်္ဂလာပါ
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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cyrillic Myanmar (Burmese)
ISO Code Cyrl Mymr
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European Southeast Asian
Characters 508
Languages 61 4
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Greek Brahmi
Total Speakers ~285.5M ~33M
Introduced 940 CE 1050 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

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