What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Thaana read?

Thaana reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Thaana have?

Thaana has 50 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Thaana

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Thaa

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Thaana is a Living Right-to-left script from South Asian (50 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Thaana reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

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Thaana

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Thaana
ISO Code	Cyrl	Thaa
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	South Asian
Characters	508	50
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Arabic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	1703 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+0780–U+07B1