What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Tamil read?

Tamil reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Tamil have?

Tamil has 123 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Tamil

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Taml

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Tamil is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (123 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Tamil

வணக்கம்

தமிழ் எழுத்து

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Tamil
ISO Code	Cyrl	Taml
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	South Asian
Characters	508	123
Languages	61	2
Script Type	Alphabet	Abugida
Descended From	Greek	Brahmi
Total Speakers	~285.5M	~78M
Introduced	940 CE	700 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+0B82–U+0BFA U+11FC0–U+11FFF