Khmer vs Myanmar (Burmese)

Writing system comparison · ISO Khmr vs ISO Mymr

Khmer is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (146 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Myanmar (Burmese) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 4 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

សួស្ដី
អក្សរខ្មែរ
မင်္ဂလာပါ
မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Khmer Myanmar (Burmese)
ISO Code Khmr Mymr
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Southeast Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 146
Languages 1 4
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~16M ~33M
Introduced 611 CE 1050 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+1780–U+17F9
U+19E0–U+19FF

Only in Khmer

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Myanmar (Burmese)

4 languages

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