Hebrew vs Thaana

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Thaa

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Thaana is a Living Right-to-left script from South Asian (50 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
ދިވެހި
ތާނަ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Thaana
ISO Code Hebr Thaa
Direction Right-to-left Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern South Asian
Characters 134 50
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Arabic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE 1703 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+0780–U+07B1

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Thaana

1 language

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