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Duala Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Duala written in the Latin script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 148,637 people read or write it across 1 country.

357Fonts cover the standard set
33Standard characters
148,637People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Duala — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page. The Fonts column counts how many fonts include each letter, in the same order as the letters and codepoints; an accented form under a letter gets its own codepoint and count line beneath it.

LetterNameCodepointsFontsper letter, in order
Aa Áá A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C1 · U+00E1 136,064 / 135,110 82,004 / 82,003
Bb B U+0042 · U+0062 135,982 / 135,083
Ɓɓ B With Hook U+0181 · U+0253 535 / 532
Cc C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ɗɗ D With Hook U+018A · U+0257 531 / 464
Ee Éé E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793
Ɛɛ Open E U+0190 · U+025B 966 / 913
Ff F U+0046 · U+0066 135,955 / 135,041
Gg G U+0047 · U+0067 135,944 / 135,030
Ii Íí I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CD · U+00ED 135,906 / 134,997 81,706 / 81,488
Jj J U+004A · U+006A 135,779 / 134,898
Kk K U+004B · U+006B 135,820 / 134,904
Ll L U+004C · U+006C 135,840 / 134,937
Mm M U+004D · U+006D 135,809 / 134,871
Nn N U+004E · U+006E 135,770 / 134,851
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
Ŋŋ Eng U+014A · U+014B 5,952 / 5,969
Oo Óó O U+004F · U+006F U+00D3 · U+00F3 135,747 / 134,876 82,175 / 82,140
Ɔɔ Open O U+0186 · U+0254 1,248 / 1,191
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Ss S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu ÚúŪū U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DA · U+00FA · U+016A · U+016B 135,534 / 134,690 81,674 / 81,704 / 12,186 / 12,208
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664

Also in the standard set:

́U+0301

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.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Duala (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Duala in the Latin 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.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Cameroon 148,637 0.48%

Duala (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 357 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 33 standard characters; 357 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Latin
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, IPA Extensions, Combining Diacritical Marks, General Punctuation
People About 148,637 people read or write Duala in the Latin script — mostly in Cameroon.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.