CHARACTERS IN LANGUAGE

Chinese 40–50,000 (ideographic characters); Japanese 18,000 (ideographic characters); Khmer/Cambodian 74 (alphabetic characters); Sanskrit 48; Cyrillic 33; Persian 32; Turkish 29; Spanish 29; Arabic 28; German 27; English 26; French 26; Greek 24; Hebrew 22; Early Latin 21; Hawaiian 12.