Hebrew vs Tai Tham (Lanna)

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Lana

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Tai Tham (Lanna) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 2 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Tai Tham (Lanna) reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Tai Tham (Lanna)
ISO Code Hebr Lana
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Southeast Asian
Characters 134
Languages 5 2
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 Tai Tham (Lanna)

2 languages

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