N’Ko vs Tifinagh (Berber)

Writing system comparison · ISO Nkoo vs ISO Tfng

N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. Tifinagh (Berber) is a Living Left-to-right script from African used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: N’Ko reads Right-to-left, while Tifinagh (Berber) reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute N’Ko Tifinagh (Berber)
ISO Code Nkoo Tfng
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region African African
Characters
Languages 3 5
Script Type Alphabet Alphabet
Descended From Arabic
Total Speakers ~14M
Introduced 1949 CE 3000 BCE

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.