Devanagari (Nagari) vs Hanifi Rohingya

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Rohg

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

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
𐴆𐴝𐴋𐴞𐴌𐴟𐴌

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Hanifi Rohingya
ISO Code Deva Rohg
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 50
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Arabic
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 1400 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10D00–U+10D39

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