Cyrillic vs Yezidi

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Yezi

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Yezidi is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (47 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Yezidi reads Right-to-left.

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Attribute Cyrillic Yezidi
ISO Code Cyrl Yezi
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region European Middle Eastern
Characters 508 47
Languages 61 0
Script Type Alphabet Abjad
Descended From Greek Arabic
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+10E80–U+10EB1

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.