Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Ital vs ISO Thai

Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) is a Historical Right-to-left script from European used by 0 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: Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) reads Right-to-left, while Thai reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) Thai
ISO Code Ital Thai
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Historical Living
Region European Southeast Asian
Characters 86
Languages 0 7
Script Type Alphabet Abugida
Descended From Greek Khmer
Total Speakers ~60M
Introduced 700 BCE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0E01–U+0E5B

Only in Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)

0 languages
None unique

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.