Tamil vs Tangut

Writing system comparison · ISO Taml vs ISO Tang

Tamil is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (123 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Tangut is a Living Left-to-right script (7,059 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Tamil Tangut
ISO Code Taml Tang
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian
Characters 123 7,059
Languages 2 0
Script Type Abugida
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~78M
Introduced 700 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0B82–U+0BFA
U+11FC0–U+11FFF
U+16FE0–U+16FE0
U+17000–U+18AFF
U+18D00–U+18D1E
U+18D80–U+18DF2

Only in Tamil

2 languages

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Tangut

0 languages
None unique

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