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Northern Frisian Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Northern Frisian 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 10,094 people read or write it across 1 country.

11,180Fonts cover the standard set
28Standard characters
10,094People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Northern Frisian — 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 ÅåÄäĀā A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C5 · U+00E5 · U+00C4 · U+00E4 · U+0100 · U+0101 136,064 / 135,110 81,254 / 81,113 / 82,764 / 82,682 / 12,463 / 12,479
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
Đđ D With Stroke U+0110 · U+0111 16,405 / 16,454
Ee Ēē E U+0045 · U+0065 U+0112 · U+0113 136,045 / 135,092 12,409 / 12,378
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 I U+0049 · U+0069 135,906 / 134,997
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 Öö O U+004F · U+006F U+00D6 · U+00F6 135,747 / 134,876 82,730 / 82,574
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
Uu Üü U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DC · U+00FC 135,534 / 134,690 82,555 / 82,479
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664

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+201A"U+0022“U+201C„U+201E«U+00AB»U+00BB(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023

Where Northern Frisian (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Northern Frisian 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
Germany 10,094 0.01%

Northern Frisian (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 11,180 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 28 standard characters; 5,489 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 10,094 people read or write Northern Frisian in the Latin script — mostly in Germany.

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