What direction does Latin read?

Latin reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Tifinagh (Berber) read?

Tifinagh (Berber) reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Latin have?

Latin has 1,492 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Tifinagh (Berber) have?

Tifinagh (Berber) has character count data not available.

Latin vs Tifinagh (Berber)

Writing system comparison · ISO Latn vs ISO Tfng

Latin is a Living Left-to-right script from European (1,492 Unicode characters) used by 515 languages. Tifinagh (Berber) is a Living Left-to-right script from African used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right. 3 languages are written in both scripts.

Latin

Hello World

Tifinagh (Berber)

ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Latin	Tifinagh (Berber)
ISO Code	Latn	Tfng
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	African
Characters	1,492	—
Languages	515	5
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)	—
Total Speakers	~2.2B	—
Introduced	700 CE	3000 BCE
Unicode Ranges	U+0041–U+007A U+00AA–U+00F6 U+00F8–U+01BA U+01BB–U+01C3 U+01C4–U+0293 U+0294–U+02AF U+02B0–U+02E4 U+1D00–U+1D77 U+1D79–U+1D9A U+1D9B–U+1DBE U+1E00–U+1EFF U+2071–U+209C U+212A–U+214E U+2160–U+2188 U+2C60–U+2C7F U+A722–U+A7FF U+AB30–U+AB69 U+FB00–U+FB06 U+FF21–U+FF5A U+10780–U+107BA U+1DF00–U+1DF2A

Only in Latin

512 languages

Acehnese Acoli Adangme Afar Afrikaans Aghem Akan Akoose Alabama Albanian Aleut Anii Ao Naga Aragonese Araona Arapaho Arawak Aromanian Arpitan Asturian Asu Atikamekw Atsam Aymara Azerbaijani Bafia Bafut Balinese Bambara Banjar

Used by Both

3 languages

Central Atlas Tamazight Riffian Tachelhit

Only in Tifinagh (Berber)

2 languages

Latin vs Tifinagh (Berber)

Side-by-Side Comparison

Only in Latin

Used by Both

Only in Tifinagh (Berber)

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