Hebrew vs Syloti Nagri

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Sylo

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Syloti Nagri is a Living Left-to-right script (45 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Syloti Nagri reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Syloti Nagri
ISO Code Hebr Sylo
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern
Characters 134 45
Languages 5 0
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Brahmi
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+A800–U+A82C

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Syloti Nagri

0 languages
None unique

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