List of Latin-script alphabets


The tables below summarize and compare the letter inventory of some of the Latin-script alphabets. In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.

Letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

Alphabets that contain all ISO basic Latin letters

The International Phonetic Alphabet includes all 26 letters in their lowercase forms, although g is always single-storey in the IPA and never double-storey.
Among alphabets for natural languages the Afrikaans,#n-af| Aromanian, Basque,#n-eu| Breton, Celtic British, Catalan,#n-ca| Cornish, Czech,#n-cs| Danish,#n-da| Dutch,#n-nl| Emilian-Romagnol, English,#n-en| Estonian, Extremaduran, Fala, Filipino,#n-tl| Finnish, French,#n-fr| Galician,#n-gl| German,#n-de| Greenlandic, Hungarian,#n-hu| Indonesian, Italian,#n-it| Javanese, Karakalpak,#n-kaa| Kurdish, Modern Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, Mirandese, Norwegian,#n-da| Oromo#n-om| Papiamento#n-pap|, Polish,#n-pl| Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Slovak,#n-sk| Spanish,#n-es| Sundanese, Swedish, Tswana,#n-tn| Tunisian Arabic,#n-aeb| Uyghur, Venda,#n-ve| Võro, Walloon,#n-wa| West Frisian, Xhosa, Zhuang, Zulu, Achomic alphabets include all 26 letters, at least in their largest version.
Among alphabets for constructed languages the Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Occidental alphabets include all 26 letters.

Alphabets that do not contain all ISO basic Latin letters

This list is based on official definitions of each alphabet. Still, missing letters might occur in non-integrated loan words and place names.
AlphabetABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ#
Classical Latin#n-la|ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVXYZ23
Albanian#n-sq|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ25
Anglo-SaxonABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTUXYZ23
AchomicABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ34
ArbëreshABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXZ24
AsturianABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVXYZ23
Azeri#n-az|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ25
Bambara#n-bm|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ23
Belarusian#n-be|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
BerberABCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRSTUWXYZ24
Bislama#n-bi|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWY22
Chamorro#n-ch|ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPRSTUY20
ChewaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ24
Corsican#n-co|ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVZ22
Crimean TatarABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVYZ24
Croatian #n-hr|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
Cypriot Arabic#n-acy|ABCDEFGIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ24
Dakelh#n-crx|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNORSTUWYZ22
DakotaABCDEFGHIJKMNOPSTUWYZ20
DalecarlianABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWY22
Dinka#n-din|ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRTUWY20
EsperantoABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
ExtremaduranABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ24
Traditional FalaABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVXZ23
FaroeseABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVY21
FriulianABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVZ22
Fula#n-ff|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWXY23
GagauzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
Traditional Galician#n-gl|ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVXZ22
GilberteseABEIKMNORTUW12
GlosaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ25
Traditional GreenlandicAEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUV18
Guaraní#n-gn|ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVY21
Gwich'in#n-gwi|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNORSTUVWYZ23
HaitianABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ25
HänABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ22
Hausa#n-ha|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ23
HawaiianAEHIKLMNOPUW12
IcelandicABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVXY22
Igbo#n-ig|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ24
Inari SamiABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
Irish#n-ga|ABCDEFGHILMNOPRSTUVZ20
KashubianABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ23
Kazakh#n-kk|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVYZ24
KhasiABDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWY20
Latvian#n-lv|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
Lithuanian#n-lt|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
Livonian#n-liv|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
LojbanABCDEFGIJKLMNOPRSTUVXYZ23
Lule Sami#n-ls|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUV20
MalagasyABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTVYZ21
Maltese#n-mt|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ24
Manx GaelicABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWY24
Māori#n-mi|AEGHIKMNOPRTUW14
Marshallese#n-mh|ABDEIJKLMNOPRTUWY17
Massachusett#n-mss|ACEHKMNPQSTUWY14
Traditional MirandeseABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUXYZ23
Mohawk#n-moh|AEHIKNORSTWY12
Na'vi#n-mis|AEFGHIKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ21
NavajoABCDEGHIJKLMNOSTWXYZ20
Northern SamiABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
NuxalkACHIKLMNPQSTUWXY16
OccitanABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVXZ23
Pan-NigerianABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ24
PiedmonteseABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVZ22
Pinyin#n-pinyin|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZ25
Traditional PolishABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ23
Romani#n-rom|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVXZ23
RotokasAEGIKOPRSTUV12
SamoanAEFGILMNOPSTUV14
SardinianABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ25
Scots GaelicABCDEFGHILMNOPRSTU18
Serbian#n-hr|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
ShonaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ24
SicilianABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVZ22
Skolt SamiABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
SlovenianABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVZ22
SomaliABCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRSTUWXY23
Sorbian#n-wen|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ23
Southern SamiABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVY21
SwahiliABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ24
Tagalog#n-tl|ABDEGHIKLMNOPRSTUWY19
TahitianAEFHIMNOPRTUV13
TetumABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXZ23
TonganAEFGHIKLMNOPSTUV16
TurkishABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVYZ23
Turkmen#n-tk|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYZ22
Ulithian#n-uli|ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPRSTUWY21
Ume SamiABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVY21
Uzbek#n-uz|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ25
Vietnamese#n-vi|ABCDEGHIKLMNOPQRSTUVXY22
VolapükABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ25
Welsh#n-cy|ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPRSTUWY21
WolofABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXY24
Yapese#n-yap|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWY23
Yoruba#n-yo|ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWY21
Zuni#n-zun|ABCDEHIKLMNOPSTUWY18
count9685708495808889957481899495938931889095926246316761-

The I is used in two distinct versions in Turkic languages, dotless and dotted. They are considered different letters, and case conversion must take care to preserve the distinction. Irish traditionally does not write the dot, or 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 like for Turkic alphabets.

Statistics

The chart above lists a variety of alphabets that do not officially contain all 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In 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:
LetterAEINTMOUSHLPGRBDKFJCYVZWQX
Alphabets9695959595949392908989898888858481807470676261463131

Letters not contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

Some languages have extended the Latin alphabet with ligatures, modified letters, or digraphs. These symbols are listed below. The characters in the following tables may not all render, depending on which operating system and browser version are used, and the presence or absence of Unicode fonts.

Additional letters by type

Independent letters and ligatures

Letter–diacritic combinations: connected or overlaid

Other letters in collation order

The tables below are a work in progress. Eventually, table cells with light blue shading will indicate letter forms that do not constitute distinct letters in their associated alphabets. Please help with this task if you have the required linguistic knowledge and technical editing skill.
For the order in which the characters are sorted in each alphabet, see collating sequence.

Letters derived from A–H

Letters derived from I–O

Letters derived from P–Z

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