Hebrew vs New Tai Lue

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Talu

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. New Tai Lue is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (83 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while New Tai Lue reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew New Tai Lue
ISO Code Hebr Talu
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Southeast Asian
Characters 134 83
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+1980–U+19DF

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in New Tai Lue

1 language

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