Cyrillic vs Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Hung

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic) is a Historical Right-to-left script from European used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic) reads Right-to-left.

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Attribute Cyrillic Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic)
ISO Code Cyrl Hung
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Historical
Region European European
Characters 508
Languages 61 0
Script Type Alphabet Alphabet
Descended From Greek
Total Speakers ~285.5M
Introduced 940 CE 600 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

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