Hebrew vs N’Ko

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Nkoo

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew N’Ko
ISO Code Hebr Nkoo
Direction Right-to-left Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern African
Characters 134
Languages 5 3
Script Type Abjad Alphabet
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Arabic
Total Speakers ~10M ~14M
Introduced 900 BCE 1949 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in N’Ko

3 languages

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