Hebrew vs Ogham

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Ogam

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Ogham is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (29 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Ogham reads Left-to-right.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
ᚑᚌᚐᚋ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Ogham
ISO Code Hebr Ogam
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region Middle Eastern European
Characters 134 29
Languages 5 0
Script Type Abjad Alphabet
Descended From Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 400 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+1680–U+169C

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Ogham

0 languages
None unique

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