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Latin vs Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Writing system comparison · ISO Latn vs ISO Cans

Latin is a Living Left-to-right script from European (1,492 Unicode characters) used by 515 languages. Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a Living Left-to-right script from American used by 10 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right. 2 languages are written in both scripts.

Latin
Hello World
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Latin Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
ISO Code Latn Cans
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European American
Characters 1,492 —
Languages 515 10
Script Type Alphabet Syllabary
Descended From Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) —
Total Speakers ~2.2B —
Introduced 700 CE 1840 CE
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

513 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

2 languages
Cree Inuktitut

Only in Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

8 languages
Moose Cree Northern East Cree Oji-Cree Ojibwa Plains Cree Southern East Cree Swampy Cree nsk

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