Greek vs Kannada

Writing system comparison · ISO Grek vs ISO Knda

Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Kannada is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (92 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Greek Kannada
ISO Code Grek Knda
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European South Asian
Characters 518 92
Languages 5 2
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Phoenician Brahmi
Total Speakers ~13M ~44M
Introduced 800 BCE 1500 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0370–U+03FF
U+1D26–U+1D6A
U+1DBF–U+1DBF
U+1F00–U+1FFE
U+2126–U+2126
U+AB65–U+AB65
U+10140–U+1018E
U+101A0–U+101A0
U+1D200–U+1D245
U+0C80–U+0CF3

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Kannada

2 languages

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