Home / Languages / Kikuyu (Latin)

Kikuyu Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Kikuyu 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 9,901,888 people read or write it across 1 country.

10,944Fonts cover the standard set
20Standard characters
9,901,888People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Kikuyu — 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 A U+0041 · U+0061 136,064 / 135,110
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 E U+0045 · U+0065 136,045 / 135,092
Gg G U+0047 · U+0067 135,944 / 135,030
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Ii Ĩĩ I U+0049 · U+0069 U+0128 · U+0129 135,906 / 134,997 11,165 / 11,116
Jj J U+004A · U+006A 135,779 / 134,898
Kk K U+004B · U+006B 135,820 / 134,904
Mm M U+004D · U+006D 135,809 / 134,871
Nn N U+004E · U+006E 135,770 / 134,851
Oo O U+004F · U+006F 135,747 / 134,876
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu Ũũ U U+0055 · U+0075 U+0168 · U+0169 135,534 / 134,690 11,068 / 11,052
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648

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 Kikuyu (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Kikuyu 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
Kenya 9,901,888 17%

Kikuyu (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 10,944 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 20 standard characters; 10,943 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Latin
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin Extended-A, General Punctuation
People About 9,901,888 people read or write Kikuyu in the Latin script — mostly in Kenya.

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