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Irish Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Irish 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 1,254,050 people read or write it across 2 countries.

81,063Fonts cover the standard set
23Standard characters
1,254,050People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Irish — 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
Cc C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee Éé E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793
Ff F U+0046 · U+0066 135,955 / 135,041
Gg G U+0047 · U+0067 135,944 / 135,030
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Ii Íí I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CD · U+00ED 135,906 / 134,997 81,706 / 81,488
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
Oo Óó O U+004F · U+006F U+00D3 · U+00F3 135,747 / 134,876 82,175 / 82,140
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 Úú U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DA · U+00FA 135,534 / 134,690 81,674 / 81,704

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+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021′U+2032″U+2033

Where Irish (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Irish 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
Ireland 1,151,361 22%
United Kingdom 102,689 0.15%

Irish (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 81,063 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 23 standard characters; 1,745 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, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation
People About 1,254,050 people read or write Irish in the Latin script — mostly in Ireland, United Kingdom.

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