Myanmar (Burmese) vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Mymr vs ISO Thai

Myanmar (Burmese) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 4 languages. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

မင်္ဂလာပါ
မြန်မာအက္ခရာ
สวัสดีชาวโลก
อักษรไทย

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Myanmar (Burmese) Thai
ISO Code Mymr Thai
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Southeast Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 86
Languages 4 7
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Khmer
Total Speakers ~33M ~60M
Introduced 1050 CE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0E01–U+0E5B

Only in Myanmar (Burmese)

4 languages

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.