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Malagasy Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Malagasy 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 26,507,430 people read or write it across 1 country.

6,655Fonts cover the standard set
27Standard characters
26,507,430People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Malagasy — 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 Àà A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C0 · U+00E0 136,064 / 135,110 81,628 / 81,984
Bb B U+0042 · U+0062 135,982 / 135,083
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee Èè E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C8 · U+00E8 136,045 / 135,092 81,628 / 81,780
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 Ìì I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CC · U+00EC 135,906 / 134,997 81,150 / 80,990
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 ÒòÔô O U+004F · U+006F U+00D2 · U+00F2 · U+00D4 · U+00F4 135,747 / 134,876 81,153 / 81,208 / 81,389 / 81,312
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
Vv V U+0056 · U+0076 135,566 / 134,636
Yy Ỳỳ Y U+0059 · U+0079 U+1EF2 · U+1EF3 135,463 / 134,648 6,860 / 6,809
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+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Malagasy (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Malagasy 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
Madagascar 26,507,430 90%

Malagasy (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 6,655 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 27 standard characters; 2,964 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, Combining Diacritical Marks, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation
People About 26,507,430 people read or write Malagasy in the Latin script — mostly in Madagascar.

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