Hebrew vs Linear B

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Linb

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Linear B is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (211 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Linear B reads Left-to-right.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
𐀀𐀁𐀂

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Linear B
ISO Code Hebr Linb
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region Middle Eastern European
Characters 134 211
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad Syllabary
Descended From Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 1400 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+10000–U+1005D
U+10080–U+100FA

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Linear B

1 language

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