Tamil vs Yezidi

Writing system comparison · ISO Taml vs ISO Yezi

Tamil is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (123 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Yezidi is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (47 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Tamil reads Left-to-right, while Yezidi reads Right-to-left.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Tamil Yezidi
ISO Code Taml Yezi
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Middle Eastern
Characters 123 47
Languages 2 0
Script Type Abugida Abjad
Descended From Brahmi Arabic
Total Speakers ~78M
Introduced 700 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0B82–U+0BFA
U+11FC0–U+11FFF
U+10E80–U+10EB1

Only in Tamil

2 languages

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Yezidi

0 languages
None unique

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