Hebrew vs Mongolian

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Mong

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Mongolian is a Living Top-to-bottom script from Central Asian (168 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Mongolian reads Top-to-bottom.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
ᠰᠠᠢᠨ ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠨᠠ ᠤᠤ
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Mongolian
ISO Code Hebr Mong
Direction Right-to-left Top-to-bottom
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Central Asian
Characters 134 168
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Old Uyghur
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 1204 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+1800–U+18AA
U+11660–U+1166C

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Mongolian

1 language

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