Mandaic, Mandaean vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Mand vs ISO Thai

Mandaic, Mandaean is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern used by 1 language. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Mandaic, Mandaean reads Right-to-left, while Thai reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Mandaic, Mandaean Thai
ISO Code Mand Thai
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Southeast Asian
Characters 86
Languages 1 7
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Khmer
Total Speakers ~60M
Introduced 200 CE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0E01–U+0E5B

Only in Mandaic, Mandaean

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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