Hebrew vs Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata)

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Tglg

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

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata)
ISO Code Hebr Tglg
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Southeast Asian
Characters 134
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

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata)

0 languages
None unique

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