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Kurdish Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Kurdish 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 7,214,784 people read or write it across 5 countries.

Kurdish is also written in: (Arabic)

13,065Fonts cover the standard set
31Standard characters
7,214,784People
5Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Kurdish — 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 Çç C U+0043 · U+0063 U+00C7 · U+00E7 135,993 / 135,072 80,520 / 80,911
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee Êê E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00CA · U+00EA 136,045 / 135,092 81,459 / 81,460
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 Îî I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CE · U+00EE 135,906 / 134,997 81,234 / 81,023
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
Oo O U+004F · U+006F 135,747 / 134,876
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Qq Q U+0051 · U+0071 135,653 / 134,746
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Ss Şş S U+0053 · U+0073 U+015E · U+015F 135,721 / 134,797 13,300 / 13,285
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu Ûû U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DB · U+00FB 135,534 / 134,690 81,048 / 81,050
Vv V U+0056 · U+0076 135,566 / 134,636
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664
Xx X U+0058 · U+0078 135,478 / 134,585
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
Zz Z U+005A · U+007A 135,487 / 134,568

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 Kurdish (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Kurdish 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
Türkiye 4,626,572 5.5%
Syria 1,909,232 8%
Germany 555,186 0.66%
Armenia 98,233 3.3%
Azerbaijan 25,560 0.24%

Kurdish (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 13,065 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 31 standard characters; 5,818 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, General Punctuation
People About 7,214,784 people read or write Kurdish in the Latin script — mostly in Türkiye, Syria, Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan.
Also written in Kurdish (Arabic)

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