Hebrew vs Lydian

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Lydi

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Lydian is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (27 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

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Attribute Hebrew Lydian
ISO Code Hebr Lydi
Direction Right-to-left Right-to-left
Status Living Historical
Region Middle Eastern Middle Eastern
Characters 134 27
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Phoenician
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 700 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+10920–U+1093F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Lydian

1 language

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