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Central Kurdish Alphabet (Arabic)

The letters and characters of Central Kurdish written in the Arabic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 5,606,845 people read or write it across 2 countries.

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Central Kurdish — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

Where Central Kurdish (Arabic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Central Kurdish in the Arabic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.