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Venda Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Venda 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 1,499,942 people read or write it across 2 countries.

943Fonts cover the standard set
28Standard characters
1,499,942People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Venda — 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 Ḓḓ D U+0044 · U+0064 U+1E12 · U+1E13 136,007 / 135,110 968 / 968
Ee E U+0045 · U+0065 136,045 / 135,092
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
Kk K U+004B · U+006B 135,820 / 134,904
Ll Ḽḽ L U+004C · U+006C U+1E3C · U+1E3D 135,840 / 134,937 954 / 957
Mm M U+004D · U+006D 135,809 / 134,871
Nn ṄṅṊṋ N U+004E · U+006E U+1E44 · U+1E45 · U+1E4A · U+1E4B 135,770 / 134,851 1,759 / 1,757 / 955 / 958
Oo O U+004F · U+006F 135,747 / 134,876
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 Ṱṱ T U+0054 · U+0074 U+1E70 · U+1E71 135,769 / 134,800 944 / 949
Uu U U+0055 · U+0075 135,534 / 134,690
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

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Venda (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Venda 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 1,390,180 2.3%
Zimbabwe 109,763 0.64%

Venda (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 943 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 28 standard characters; 943 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Latin
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation
People About 1,499,942 people read or write Venda in the Latin script — mostly in South Africa, Zimbabwe.

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