Hebrew vs Inscriptional Parthian

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Prti

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Inscriptional Parthian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (30 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

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Attribute Hebrew Inscriptional Parthian
ISO Code Hebr Prti
Direction Right-to-left Right-to-left
Status Living Historical
Region Middle Eastern Middle Eastern
Characters 134 30
Languages 5 1
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+10B40–U+10B5F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Inscriptional Parthian

1 language

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