What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Soyombo read?

Soyombo reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Soyombo have?

Soyombo has 83 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Soyombo

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Soyo

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Soyombo is a Historical Left-to-right script from Central Asian (83 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

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Soyombo

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Soyombo
ISO Code	Cyrl	Soyo
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Central Asian
Characters	508	83
Languages	61	0
Script Type	Alphabet	Abugida
Descended From	Greek	Tibetan
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	U+11A50–U+11AA2

Only in Cyrillic

61 languages

Abkhazian Adyghe Avaric Bashkir Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Buriat Chechen Church Slavic Chuvash Crimean Tatar Dargwa Erzya Ingush Kabardian Kalmyk Kara-Kalpak Karachay-Balkar Kazakh Komi Komi-Permyak Kumyk Kyrgyz Lezghian Macedonian Mari Moksha Mongolian Nogai

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Soyombo