Greek vs N’Ko

Writing system comparison · ISO Grek vs ISO Nkoo

Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Greek reads Left-to-right, while N’Ko reads Right-to-left.

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Ελληνικό αλφάβητο
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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Greek N’Ko
ISO Code Grek Nkoo
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region European African
Characters 518
Languages 5 3
Script Type Alphabet Alphabet
Descended From Phoenician Arabic
Total Speakers ~13M ~14M
Introduced 800 BCE 1949 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

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in N’Ko

3 languages

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