Greek vs Tamil

Writing system comparison · ISO Grek vs ISO Taml

Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Tamil is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (123 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο
வணக்கம்
தமிழ் எழுத்து

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Greek Tamil
ISO Code Grek Taml
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European South Asian
Characters 518 123
Languages 5 2
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Phoenician Brahmi
Total Speakers ~13M ~78M
Introduced 800 BCE 700 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+0B82–U+0BFA
U+11FC0–U+11FFF

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Tamil

2 languages

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