{"history":[],"article":{"id":"068f1ccd-1a24-472d-a4d0-d946d1440050","title":"List of Latin-script alphabets","slug":"list-of-latin-script-alphabets","content":":::summary\n:::\n\n# \nThe lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the [Latin-script alphabets](https://bliptext.com/articles/latin-script-alphabet).\nIn this article, the scope of the word \"[alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/alphabet)\" is broadened to include letters with [tone marks](https://bliptext.com/articles/tone-marks), and other [diacritics](https://bliptext.com/articles/diacritics) used to represent a wide range of [orthographic](https://bliptext.com/articles/orthography) traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their [alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/alphabet) or the table.\nParentheses indicate characters not used in modern standard orthographies of the languages, but used in obsolete and/or dialectal forms.\n# [The distribution of the Latin scripts.{{Legend|#008000|Countries where the Latin script is the sole main script}}\n{{Legend|#00FF00|Countries where Latin co-exists with other scripts|undefined | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Latin///alphabet///world///distribution.svg]\n\n# Letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet\n\n## Alphabets that contain only ISO basic Latin letters\nAmong alphabets for natural languages the [English](https://bliptext.com/articles/english-alphabet),^{[[36](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/indonesian-alphabet), and [Malay](https://bliptext.com/articles/malay-alphabet) alphabets only use the 26 letters in both cases.\nAmong alphabets for constructed languages the [Ido](https://bliptext.com/articles/ido-alphabet) and [Interlingua](https://bliptext.com/articles/interlingua-alphabet) alphabets only use the 26 letters, while the [Toki Pona](https://bliptext.com/articles/toki-pona) uses a 14-letter subset.\n\n### Extended by ligatures\n\n### Extended by diacritical marks\n\n### Extended by multigraphs\n\n## Alphabets that contain all ISO basic Latin letters\nAmong alphabets for natural languages the [Afrikaans](https://bliptext.com/articles/afrikaans),^{[[54](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Aromanian](https://bliptext.com/articles/aromanian-alphabet), [Azerbaijani](https://bliptext.com/articles/azerbaijani-alphabet) (some dialects)^{[[53](https://bliptext.com/articles/)], [Basque](https://bliptext.com/articles/basque-alphabet),^{[[4](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [Celtic British](https://bliptext.com/articles/common-brittonic), [Catalan](https://bliptext.com/articles/catalan-alphabet),^{[[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Cornish](https://bliptext.com/articles/cornish-language), [Czech](https://bliptext.com/articles/czech-alphabet),^{[[8](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Danish](https://bliptext.com/articles/danish-alphabet),^{[[9](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Dutch](https://bliptext.com/articles/dutch-alphabet),^{[[10](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Emilian-Romagnol](https://bliptext.com/articles/emilian-romagnol-language), [Filipino](https://bliptext.com/articles/filipino-alphabet),^{[[11](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Finnish](https://bliptext.com/articles/finnish-alphabet), [French](https://bliptext.com/articles/french-alphabet),^{[[12](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [German](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-alphabet),^{[[13](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Greenlandic](https://bliptext.com/articles/greenlandic-alphabet), [Hungarian](https://bliptext.com/articles/hungarian-alphabet),^{[[15](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Javanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/javanese-latin-alphabet), [Karakalpak](https://bliptext.com/articles/karakalpak-alphabet),^{[[23](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-alphabet), [Modern Latin](https://bliptext.com/articles/latin-alphabet), [Luxembourgish](https://bliptext.com/articles/luxembourgish-language), [Norwegian](https://bliptext.com/articles/norwegian-alphabet),^{[[9](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Oromo](https://bliptext.com/articles/oromo-language)^{[[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)5] , [Papiamento](https://bliptext.com/articles/papiamento-orthography)^{[[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)3] , [Polish](https://bliptext.com/articles/polish-alphabet)^{[[22](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [Portuguese](https://bliptext.com/articles/portuguese-alphabet), [Quechua](https://bliptext.com/articles/quechua-alphabet), [Rhaeto-Romance](https://bliptext.com/articles/rhaeto-romance-languages), [Romanian](https://bliptext.com/articles/romanian-alphabet), [Slovak](https://bliptext.com/articles/slovak-alphabet),^{[[24](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Spanish](https://bliptext.com/articles/spanish-alphabet),^{[[25](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Sundanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/sundanese-language), [Swedish](https://bliptext.com/articles/swedish-alphabet), [Tswana](https://bliptext.com/articles/tswana-language),^{[[52](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Uyghur](https://bliptext.com/articles/uyghur-language), [Venda](https://bliptext.com/articles/venda-language),^{[[51](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Võro](https://bliptext.com/articles/v-ro-alphabet), [Walloon](https://bliptext.com/articles/walloon-orthography),^{[[27](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [West Frisian](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-frisian-alphabet), [Xhosa](https://bliptext.com/articles/xhosa-alphabet), [Zhuang](https://bliptext.com/articles/standard-zhuang), [Zulu](https://bliptext.com/articles/zulu-alphabet) alphabets include all 26 letters, at least in their largest version.\nAmong alphabets for constructed languages the [Interglossa](https://bliptext.com/articles/interglossa) and [Occidental](https://bliptext.com/articles/occidental-alphabet) alphabets include all 26 letters.\nThe [International Phonetic Alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-phonetic-alphabet) (IPA) includes all 26 letters in their lowercase forms, although g is always [single-storey](https://bliptext.com/articles/single-storey-g) ([ɡ](https://bliptext.com/articles/)) in the IPA and never double-storey.\n# [8px | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Looptail///g.svg]\n\n## Alphabets that do not contain all ISO basic Latin letters\nThis list is based on official definitions of each alphabet.\nHowever, excluded letters might occur in non-integrated loan words and place names.\nThe I is used in two distinct versions in Turkic languages: [dotless (I ı)](https://bliptext.com/articles/dotless-i) and [İ|dotted (İ i)](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-dotted-i-i).\nThey are considered different letters, and case conversion must take care to preserve the distinction.\n[Irish](https://bliptext.com/articles/irish-alphabet) traditionally does not write the dot, or [tittle](https://bliptext.com/articles/tittle), over the small letter i, but the language makes no distinction here if a dot is displayed, so no specific encoding and special case conversion rule is needed as it is for Turkic alphabets.\n\n### Statistics\nThe chart above lists a variety of alphabets that do not officially contain all 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.\nIn this list, one letter is used by all of them: A. For each of the 26 basic ISO Latin alphabet letters, the number of alphabets in the list above using it is as follows:\n\n# Letters not contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet\nSome languages have extended the Latin alphabet with [ligatures](https://bliptext.com/articles/ligature-typography), [modified letters](https://bliptext.com/articles/diacritic), or [digraphs](https://bliptext.com/articles/digraph-orthography).\nThese symbols are listed below.\n\n## Additional letters by type\n\n### Independent letters and ligatures\n\n### Letter–diacritic combinations: connected or overlaid\n\n## Other letters in collation order\nThe tables below are a work in progress.\nEventually, table cells with light blue shading will indicate letter forms that do not constitute distinct letters in their associated alphabets.\nPlease help with this task if you have the required linguistic knowledge and technical editing skill.\nFor the order in which the characters are sorted in each alphabet, see [collating sequence](https://bliptext.com/articles/collating-sequence).\n\n### Letters derived from A–H\n\n### Letters derived from I–O\n\n### Letters derived from P–Z\n\n# Miscellanea\n\n# Footnotes","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T19:54:02.881Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T19:54:02.881Z","search_vector":"'alphabet':6 'latin':4 'latin-script':3 'list':1 'script':5","search_content":" \n \n\n# \nThe lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the [Latin-script alphabets](https://bliptext.com/articles/latin-script-alphabet).\nIn this article, the scope of the word \"[alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/alphabet)\" is broadened to include letters with [tone marks](https://bliptext.com/articles/tone-marks), and other [diacritics](https://bliptext.com/articles/diacritics) used to represent a wide range of [orthographic](https://bliptext.com/articles/orthography) traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their [alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/alphabet) or the table.\nParentheses indicate characters not used in modern standard orthographies of the languages, but used in obsolete and/or dialectal forms.\n# [The distribution of the Latin scripts.{{Legend|#008000|Countries where the Latin script is the sole main script}}\n{{Legend|#00FF00|Countries where Latin co-exists with other scripts|undefined | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Latin///alphabet///world///distribution.svg]\n\n# Letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet\n\n## Alphabets that contain only ISO basic Latin letters\nAmong alphabets for natural languages the [English](https://bliptext.com/articles/english-alphabet), [[36](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/indonesian-alphabet), and [Malay](https://bliptext.com/articles/malay-alphabet) alphabets only use the 26 letters in both cases.\nAmong alphabets for constructed languages the [Ido](https://bliptext.com/articles/ido-alphabet) and [Interlingua](https://bliptext.com/articles/interlingua-alphabet) alphabets only use the 26 letters, while the [Toki Pona](https://bliptext.com/articles/toki-pona) uses a 14-letter subset.\n\n### Extended by ligatures\n\n### Extended by diacritical marks\n\n### Extended by multigraphs\n\n## Alphabets that contain all ISO basic Latin letters\nAmong alphabets for natural languages the [Afrikaans](https://bliptext.com/articles/afrikaans), [[54](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Aromanian](https://bliptext.com/articles/aromanian-alphabet), [Azerbaijani](https://bliptext.com/articles/azerbaijani-alphabet) (some dialects) [[53](https://bliptext.com/articles/)], [Basque](https://bliptext.com/articles/basque-alphabet), [[4](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [Celtic British](https://bliptext.com/articles/common-brittonic), [Catalan](https://bliptext.com/articles/catalan-alphabet), [[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Cornish](https://bliptext.com/articles/cornish-language), [Czech](https://bliptext.com/articles/czech-alphabet), [[8](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Danish](https://bliptext.com/articles/danish-alphabet), [[[9](https://bliptext.com/articles/)](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Dutch](https://bliptext.com/articles/dutch-alphabet), [[10](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Emilian-Romagnol](https://bliptext.com/articles/emilian-romagnol-language), [Filipino](https://bliptext.com/articles/filipino-alphabet), [[11](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Finnish](https://bliptext.com/articles/finnish-alphabet), [French](https://bliptext.com/articles/french-alphabet), [[12](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [German](https://bliptext.com/articles/german-alphabet), [[13](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Greenlandic](https://bliptext.com/articles/greenlandic-alphabet), [Hungarian](https://bliptext.com/articles/hungarian-alphabet), [[15](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Javanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/javanese-latin-alphabet), [Karakalpak](https://bliptext.com/articles/karakalpak-alphabet), [[23](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-alphabet), [Modern Latin](https://bliptext.com/articles/latin-alphabet), [Luxembourgish](https://bliptext.com/articles/luxembourgish-language), [Norwegian](https://bliptext.com/articles/norwegian-alphabet), [[[9](https://bliptext.com/articles/)](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Oromo](https://bliptext.com/articles/oromo-language) [[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)5] , [Papiamento](https://bliptext.com/articles/papiamento-orthography) [[6](https://bliptext.com/articles/)3] , [Polish](https://bliptext.com/articles/polish-alphabet) [[22](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] , [Portuguese](https://bliptext.com/articles/portuguese-alphabet), [Quechua](https://bliptext.com/articles/quechua-alphabet), [Rhaeto-Romance](https://bliptext.com/articles/rhaeto-romance-languages), [Romanian](https://bliptext.com/articles/romanian-alphabet), [Slovak](https://bliptext.com/articles/slovak-alphabet), [[24](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Spanish](https://bliptext.com/articles/spanish-alphabet), [[25](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Sundanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/sundanese-language), [Swedish](https://bliptext.com/articles/swedish-alphabet), [Tswana](https://bliptext.com/articles/tswana-language), [[52](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Uyghur](https://bliptext.com/articles/uyghur-language), [Venda](https://bliptext.com/articles/venda-language), [[51](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [Võro](https://bliptext.com/articles/v-ro-alphabet), [Walloon](https://bliptext.com/articles/walloon-orthography), [[27](https://bliptext.com/articles/)] [West Frisian](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-frisian-alphabet), [Xhosa](https://bliptext.com/articles/xhosa-alphabet), [Zhuang](https://bliptext.com/articles/standard-zhuang), [Zulu](https://bliptext.com/articles/zulu-alphabet) alphabets include all 26 letters, at least in their largest version.\nAmong alphabets for constructed languages the [Interglossa](https://bliptext.com/articles/interglossa) and [Occidental](https://bliptext.com/articles/occidental-alphabet) alphabets include all 26 letters.\nThe [International Phonetic Alphabet](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-phonetic-alphabet) (IPA) includes all 26 letters in their lowercase forms, although g is always [single-storey](https://bliptext.com/articles/single-storey-g) ([ɡ](https://bliptext.com/articles/)) in the IPA and never double-storey.\n# [8px | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Looptail///g.svg]\n\n## Alphabets that do not contain all ISO basic Latin letters\nThis list is based on official definitions of each alphabet.\nHowever, excluded letters might occur in non-integrated loan words and place names.\nThe I is used in two distinct versions in Turkic languages: [dotless (I ı)](https://bliptext.com/articles/dotless-i) and [İ|dotted (İ i)](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-dotted-i-i).\nThey are considered different letters, and case conversion must take care to preserve the distinction.\n[Irish](https://bliptext.com/articles/irish-alphabet) traditionally does not write the dot, or [tittle](https://bliptext.com/articles/tittle), over the small letter i, but the language makes no distinction here if a dot is displayed, so no specific encoding and special case conversion rule is needed as it is for Turkic alphabets.\n\n### Statistics\nThe chart above lists a variety of alphabets that do not officially contain all 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.\nIn this list, one letter is used by all of them: A. For each of the 26 basic ISO Latin alphabet letters, the number of alphabets in the list above using it is as follows:\n\n# Letters not contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet\nSome languages have extended the Latin alphabet with [ligatures](https://bliptext.com/articles/ligature-typography), [modified letters](https://bliptext.com/articles/diacritic), or [digraphs](https://bliptext.com/articles/digraph-orthography).\nThese symbols are listed below.\n\n## Additional letters by type\n\n### Independent letters and ligatures\n\n### Letter–diacritic combinations: connected or overlaid\n\n## Other letters in collation order\nThe tables below are a work in progress.\nEventually, table cells with light blue shading will indicate letter forms that do not constitute distinct letters in their associated alphabets.\nPlease help with this task if you have the required linguistic knowledge and technical editing skill.\nFor the order in which the characters are sorted in each alphabet, see [collating sequence](https://bliptext.com/articles/collating-sequence).\n\n### Letters derived from A–H\n\n### Letters derived from I–O\n\n### Letters derived from P–Z\n\n# Miscellanea\n\n# Footnotes","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

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