What direction does Hebrew read?

Hebrew reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Inscriptional Pahlavi read?

Inscriptional Pahlavi reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Hebrew have?

Hebrew has 134 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Inscriptional Pahlavi have?

Inscriptional Pahlavi has 27 characters in Unicode.

Hebrew vs Inscriptional Pahlavi

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Phli

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Inscriptional Pahlavi is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (27 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Hebrew

שלום עולם

כתב עברי

Inscriptional Pahlavi

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Hebrew	Inscriptional Pahlavi
ISO Code	Hebr	Phli
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	134	27
Languages	5	0
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Imperial Aramaic	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~10M	—
Introduced	900 BCE	200 CE
Unicode Ranges	U+0591–U+05F4 U+FB1D–U+FB4F	U+10B60–U+10B7F

Only in Hebrew

5 languages

Hebrew Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Persian Ladino Yiddish

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Inscriptional Pahlavi