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Western Balochi Alphabet (Arabic)

The letters and characters of Western Balochi written in the Arabic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 2,186,208 people read or write it across 3 countries.

31Fonts cover the standard set
37Standard characters
2,186,208People
3Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Western Balochi — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

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.

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Where Western Balochi (Arabic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Western Balochi in the Arabic 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
Pakistan 1,438,475 0.57%
Iran 494,967 0.56%
Afghanistan 252,766 0.63%

Western Balochi (Arabic) — facts

Font coverage 31 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 37 standard characters; 9 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Arabic
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic, General Punctuation
People About 2,186,208 people read or write Western Balochi in the Arabic script — mostly in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan.

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