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Papiamento Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Papiamento 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 216,653 people read or write it across 3 countries.

80,270Fonts cover the standard set
31Standard characters
216,653People
3Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Papiamento — 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 C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
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 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 Ññ N U+004E · U+006E U+00D1 · U+00F1 135,770 / 134,851 81,591 / 81,306
Oo Òò O U+004F · U+006F U+00D2 · U+00F2 135,747 / 134,876 81,153 / 81,208
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 S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu ÙùÜü U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00D9 · U+00F9 · U+00DC · U+00FC 135,534 / 134,690 81,265 / 81,298 / 82,555 / 82,479
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+2011,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+002F&U+0026#U+0023%U+0025′U+2032″U+2033

Where Papiamento (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Papiamento in the Latin script.

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
Curaçao 124,164 81%
Aruba 76,288 61%
Caribbean Netherlands 16,200 81%

Papiamento (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 80,270 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 31 standard characters; 80,067 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, General Punctuation
People About 216,653 people read or write Papiamento in the Latin script — mostly in Curaçao, Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands.

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