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Nigerian Pidgin Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Nigerian Pidgin 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 49,716,870 people read or write it across 1 country.

1,521Fonts cover the standard set
32Standard characters
49,716,870People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Nigerian Pidgin — 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
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee ÉéẸẹ E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 · U+1EB8 · U+1EB9 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793 / 1,805 / 1,809
Ff F U+0046 · U+0066 135,955 / 135,041
Gg G U+0047 · U+0067 135,944 / 135,030
Ii Íí I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CD · U+00ED 135,906 / 134,997 81,706 / 81,488
Jj J U+004A · U+006A 135,779 / 134,898
Kk K U+004B · U+006B 135,820 / 134,904
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
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 ÓóỌọ O U+004F · U+006F U+00D3 · U+00F3 · U+1ECC · U+1ECD 135,747 / 134,876 82,175 / 82,140 / 1,814 / 1,818
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
Vv V U+0056 · U+0076 135,566 / 134,636
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
Zz Z U+005A · U+007A 135,487 / 134,568

Also in the standard set:

́U+0301

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 Nigerian Pidgin (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Nigerian Pidgin 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
Nigeria 49,716,870 21%

Nigerian Pidgin (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 1,521 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 32 standard characters; 1,515 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 49,716,870 people read or write Nigerian Pidgin in the Latin script — mostly in Nigeria.

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