Gothic vs Hebrew

Writing system comparison · ISO Goth vs ISO Hebr

Gothic is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (27 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Gothic reads Left-to-right, while Hebrew reads Right-to-left.

𐌰𐌱𐌲
שלום עולם
כתב עברי

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Gothic Hebrew
ISO Code Goth Hebr
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Historical Living
Region European Middle Eastern
Characters 27 134
Languages 1 5
Script Type Alphabet Abjad
Descended From Greek Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 350 CE 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+10330–U+1034A
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F

Only in Gothic

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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