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Zulu Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of Zulu 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 14,969,091 people read or write it across 5 countries.

134,155Fonts cover the standard set
26Standard characters
14,969,091People
5Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Zulu — 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
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Cc C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ll L U+004C · U+006C 135,840 / 134,937
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
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
Qq Q U+0051 · U+0071 135,653 / 134,746
Xx X U+0058 · U+0078 135,478 / 134,585
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
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Mm M U+004D · U+006D 135,809 / 134,871
Nn N U+004E · U+006E 135,770 / 134,851
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Ss S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Oo O U+004F · U+006F 135,747 / 134,876
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
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
Zz Z U+005A · U+007A 135,487 / 134,568

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

Where Zulu (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Zulu 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 14,506,224 24%
Lesotho 311,857 14%
Eswatini 77,390 6.8%
Malawi 71,819 0.33%
Mozambique 1,801 0.01%

Zulu (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 134,155 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 26 standard characters; 5,937 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, General Punctuation
People About 14,969,091 people read or write Zulu in the Latin script — mostly in South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique.

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