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Quechua Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Quechua 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 11,942,570 people read or write it across 3 countries.

2,370Fonts cover the standard set
17Standard characters
11,942,570People
3Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Quechua — 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
Cc C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Ii I U+0049 · U+0069 135,906 / 134,997
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
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Qq Q U+0051 · U+0071 135,653 / 134,746
Ss S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu U U+0055 · U+0075 135,534 / 134,690
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648

Also in the standard set:

ʼU+02BC

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 Quechua (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Quechua 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
Peru 4,890,030 15%
Bolivia 3,939,840 32%
Ecuador 3,112,700 17%

Quechua (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 2,370 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 17 standard characters; 1,351 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, Spacing Modifier Letters, General Punctuation
People About 11,942,570 people read or write Quechua in the Latin script — mostly in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador.

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