Hebrew vs Old Uyghur

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Ougr

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Old Uyghur is a Historical Left-to-right script from Central Asian (26 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Old Uyghur reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Old Uyghur
ISO Code Hebr Ougr
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region Middle Eastern Central Asian
Characters 134 26
Languages 5 0
Script Type Abjad Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Sogdian
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 900 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+10F70–U+10F89

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Old Uyghur

0 languages
None unique

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