What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Sogdian read?

Sogdian reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Sogdian have?

Sogdian has 42 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Sogdian

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Sogd

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Sogdian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Central Asian (42 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Sogdian reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Sogdian

𐼰𐼱𐼲

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Sogdian
ISO Code	Cyrl	Sogd
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Central Asian
Characters	508	42
Languages	61	0
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	200 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+10F30–U+10F59