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Tswana Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Tswana 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 6,529,140 people read or write it across 4 countries.

81,065Fonts cover the standard set
23Standard characters
6,529,140People
4Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Tswana — 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
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee Êê E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00CA · U+00EA 136,045 / 135,092 81,459 / 81,460
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 Ôô O U+004F · U+006F U+00D4 · U+00F4 135,747 / 134,876 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
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

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 Tswana (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Tswana 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
South Africa 4,956,293 8.2%
Botswana 1,519,415 62%
Zimbabwe 37,731 0.22%
Namibia 15,700 0.56%

Tswana (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 81,065 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 23 standard characters; 81,046 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 6,529,140 people read or write Tswana in the Latin script — mostly in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia.

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