Cyrillic vs Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Narb

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian) is a Living Left-to-right script used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cyrillic Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)
ISO Code Cyrl Narb
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European
Characters 508
Languages 61 1
Script Type Alphabet Abjad
Descended From Greek Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~285.5M
Introduced 940 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.