What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does N’Ko read?

N’Ko reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does N’Ko have?

N’Ko has character count data not available.

Cyrillic vs N’Ko

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Nkoo

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while N’Ko reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

N’Ko

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	N’Ko
ISO Code	Cyrl	Nkoo
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	African
Characters	508	—
Languages	61	3
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	Greek	Arabic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	~14M
Introduced	940 CE	1949 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