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Lingala Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Lingala 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 3,986,653 people read or write it across 4 countries.

586Fonts cover the standard set
41Standard characters
3,986,653People
4Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Lingala — 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 ÁáÂâǍǎ A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C1 · U+00E1 · U+00C2 · U+00E2 · U+01CD · U+01CE 136,064 / 135,110 82,004 / 82,003 / 81,577 / 81,513 / 2,452 / 2,470
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 ÉéÊêĚě E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 · U+00CA · U+00EA · U+011A · U+011B 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793 / 81,459 / 81,460 / 13,790 / 13,817
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
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Ii ÍíÎîǏǐ I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CD · U+00ED · U+00CE · U+00EE · U+01CF · U+01D0 135,906 / 134,997 81,706 / 81,488 / 81,234 / 81,023 / 2,299 / 2,281
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
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Nn N U+004E · U+006E 135,770 / 134,851
Ss S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
Zz Z U+005A · U+007A 135,487 / 134,568
Oo ÓóÔôǑǒ O U+004F · U+006F U+00D3 · U+00F3 · U+00D4 · U+00F4 · U+01D1 · U+01D2 135,747 / 134,876 82,175 / 82,140 / 81,389 / 81,312 / 2,282 / 2,311
Ɔɔ Open O U+0186 · U+0254 1,248 / 1,191
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Uu Úú U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DA · U+00FA 135,534 / 134,690 81,674 / 81,704
Vv V U+0056 · U+0076 135,566 / 134,636
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664

Also in the standard set:

́U+0301̂U+0302̌U+030C

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 Lingala (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Lingala 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
Congo - Kinshasa 3,577,493 3.1%
Angola 249,254 0.67%
Congo - Brazzaville 146,344 2.4%
Central African Republic 13,562 0.24%

Lingala (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 586 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 41 standard characters; 586 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-B, IPA Extensions, Combining Diacritical Marks, General Punctuation
People About 3,986,653 people read or write Lingala in the Latin script — mostly in Congo - Kinshasa, Angola, Congo - Brazzaville, Central African Republic.

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