N’Ko vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Nkoo vs ISO Thai

N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. A key difference is reading direction: N’Ko reads Right-to-left, while Thai reads Left-to-right.

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สวัสดีชาวโลก
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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute N’Ko Thai
ISO Code Nkoo Thai
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region African Southeast Asian
Characters 86
Languages 3 7
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Arabic Khmer
Total Speakers ~14M ~60M
Introduced 1949 CE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0E01–U+0E5B

Only in N’Ko

3 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.