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Yoruba Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Yoruba 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 31,761,816 people read or write it across 2 countries.

302Fonts cover the standard set
40Standard characters
31,761,816People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Yoruba — 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 ÁáÀà A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C1 · U+00E1 · U+00C0 · U+00E0 136,064 / 135,110 82,004 / 82,003 / 81,628 / 81,984
Bb B U+0042 · U+0062 135,982 / 135,083
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee ÉéÈèẸẹ E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 · U+00C8 · U+00E8 · U+1EB8 · U+1EB9 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793 / 81,628 / 81,780 / 1,805 / 1,809
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 ÍíÌì I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CD · U+00ED · U+00CC · U+00EC 135,906 / 134,997 81,706 / 81,488 / 81,150 / 80,990
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 Ḿḿ M U+004D · U+006D U+1E3E · U+1E3F 135,809 / 134,871 1,335 / 1,345
Nn ŃńǸǹ N U+004E · U+006E U+0143 · U+0144 · U+01F8 · U+01F9 135,770 / 134,851 14,322 / 14,339 / 1,278 / 1,281
Oo ÓóÒòỌọ O U+004F · U+006F U+00D3 · U+00F3 · U+00D2 · U+00F2 · U+1ECC · U+1ECD 135,747 / 134,876 82,175 / 82,140 / 81,153 / 81,208 / 1,814 / 1,818
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Ss Ṣṣ S U+0053 · U+0073 U+1E62 · U+1E63 135,721 / 134,797 1,696 / 1,705
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu ÚúÙù U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00DA · U+00FA · U+00D9 · U+00F9 135,534 / 134,690 81,674 / 81,704 / 81,265 / 81,298
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:

́U+0301̀U+0300̄U+0304

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+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021′U+2032″U+2033

Where Yoruba (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Yoruba 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
Nigeria 30,777,110 13%
Benin 984,706 6.7%

Yoruba (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 302 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 40 standard characters; 302 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, Latin Extended-B, Combining Diacritical Marks, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation
People About 31,761,816 people read or write Yoruba in the Latin script — mostly in Nigeria, Benin.

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