Scripts and Languages
This
table shows some information about the scripts commonly used with
different languages. This information is not complete, and is being
enhanced over time. The table is sorted by script; for the same
information sorted by language, see
Languages and Scripts. The following
conventions are used in the table:
Column |
Comment |
Language |
Where
there isn't any information in Unicode CLDR as to which languages are
written in a given script, the language code is given as Unknown
or Invalid Language ("und"). |
ML |
The
modern language column shows "O" if the language is not in customary
modern use (currently following ISO 639-3 Types: Ancient, Extinct,
Historical, or Constructed). |
P |
The Primary column shows "N" if the language combination is neither an official nor a defacto-official language of some country.
For more information, see
Language-Territory
Information. |
Script |
Where there isn't any information in Unicode CLDR as to which script is used by a language, the script code is given as Unknown or Invalid
Script ("Zzzz"). |
MS |
The modern script column shows "N" if the script is not in customary modern use. |
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Script | Code | MS | Language | Code | ML | P |
Arabic | Arab | | Arabic | ar | | |
Azerbaijani | az |
Persian | fa |
Hausa | ha |
Indonesian | id |
Kazakh | kk |
Kirghiz | ky |
Malay | ms |
Pashto | ps |
Somali | so |
Tajik | tg |
Turkmen | tk |
Turkish | tr |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Wolof | wo |
Baluchi | bal | N |
Beja | bej |
Balti | bft |
Western Cham | cja |
Eastern Cham | cjm |
Sorani Kurdish | ckb |
Dogri | doi |
Jola-Fonyi | dyo |
Gbaya | gba |
Ingush | inh |
Kashmiri | ks |
Kurdish | ku |
Lahnda | lah |
Laki | lki |
Punjabi | pa |
Parsi-Dari | prd |
Dari | prs |
Sindhi | sd |
Southern Kurdish | sdh |
Tachelhit | shi |
Susu | sus |
Comorian | swb |
Uyghur | ug |
Zaza | zza |
Coptic | cop | O |
Armenian | Armn | | Armenian | hy | | |
Avestan | Avst | N | Avestan | ae | O | N |
Balinese | Bali | | Balinese | ban | | N |
Bamum | Bamu | | Bamun | bax | | N |
Batak | Batk | | Batak Toba | bbc | | N |
Bengali | Beng | | Bengali | bn | | |
Assamese | as | N |
Chakma | ccp |
Garo | grt |
Khasi | kha |
Mizo | lus |
Manipuri | mni |
Rangpuri | rkt |
Santali | sat |
Sylheti | syl |
Mundari | unr |
Munda | unx |
Bopomofo | Bopo | | Chinese | zh | | |
Brahmi | Brah | N | Prakrit Language | pra | | N |
Buginese | Bugi | N | Buginese | bug | | N |
Makasar | mak |
Mandar | mdr |
Buhid | Buhd | N | Buhid | bku | | N |
Carian | Cari | N | Carian | xcr | O | N |
Chakma | Cakm | | Chakma | ccp | | N |
Cham | Cham | | Western Cham | cja | | N |
Eastern Cham | cjm |
Cherokee | Cher | | Cherokee | chr | | N |
Coptic | Copt | N | Coptic | cop | O | N |
Cypriot | Cprt | N | Ancient Greek | grc | O | N |
Cyrillic | Cyrl | | Azerbaijani | az | | |
Belarusian | be |
Bulgarian | bg |
Kazakh | kk |
Kirghiz | ky |
Macedonian | mk |
Mongolian | mn |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Serbian | sr |
Tajik | tg |
Turkmen | tk |
Ukrainian | uk |
Uzbek | uz |
Abkhazian | ab | N |
Abaza | abq |
Adyghe | ady |
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | aii |
Southern Altai | alt |
Avaric | av |
Bashkir | ba |
Buriat | bua |
Chechen | ce |
Mari | chm |
Shor | cjs |
Chukot | ckt |
Crimean Turkish | crh |
Chuvash | cv |
Dargwa | dar |
Dungan | dng |
Evenki | evn |
Gagauz | gag |
Nanai | gld |
Ingush | inh |
Kara-Kalpak | kaa |
Kabardian | kbd |
Khanty | kca |
Khakas | kjh |
Komi-Permyak | koi |
Koryak | kpy |
Karachay-Balkar | krc |
Karelian | krl |
Kurdish | ku |
Kumyk | kum |
Komi | kv |
Lak | lbe |
Lezghian | lez |
Moksha | mdf |
Mansi | mns |
Erzya | myv |
Nogai | nog |
Ossetic | os |
Romany | rom |
Sakha | sah |
Northern Sami | se |
Selkup | sel |
Tabassaran | tab |
Tatar | tt |
Altaic Language | tut |
Tuvinian | tyv |
Udihe | ude |
Udmurt | udm |
Uyghur | ug |
Kalmyk | xal |
Nenets | yrk |
Deseret | Dsrt | N | English | en | | |
Devanagari | Deva | | Hindi | hi | | |
Nepali | ne |
Angika | anp | N |
Awadhi | awa |
Bagheli | bfy |
Bihari | bh |
Bhili | bhb |
Bhojpuri | bho |
Kanauji | bjj |
Braj | bra |
Bodo | brx |
Bateri | btv |
Garhwali | gbm |
Gondi | gon |
Chhattisgarhi | hne |
Ho | hoc |
Hadothi | hoj |
Kachchi | kfr |
Konkani | kok |
Kurukh | kru |
Kashmiri | ks |
Limbu | lif |
Magahi | mag |
Maithili | mai |
Marathi | mr |
Marwari | mwr |
Newari | new |
Rajbanshi | rjs |
Santali | sat |
Sindhi | sd |
Mundari | unr |
Munda | unx |
Sherpa | xsr |
Pali | pi | O |
Sanskrit | sa |
Egyptian hieroglyphs | Egyp | N | Ancient Egyptian | egy | O | N |
Ethiopic | Ethi | | Amharic | am | | |
Tigrinya | ti |
Blin | byn | N |
Oromo | om |
Tigre | tig |
Wolaytta | wal |
Geez | gez | O |
Fraser | Lisu | | Lisu | lis | | N |
Georgian | Geor | | Georgian | ka | | |
Glagolitic | Glag | N | Church Slavic | cu | O | N |
Gothic | Goth | N | Gothic | got | O | N |
Greek | Grek | | Greek | el | | |
Coptic | cop | O | N |
Ancient Greek | grc |
Gujarati | Gujr | | Gujarati | gu | | N |
Gurmukhi | Guru | | Punjabi | pa | | N |
Han | Hani | | Vietnamese | vi | | |
Hangul | Hang | | Korean | ko | | |
Hanunoo | Hano | N | Hanunoo | hnn | | N |
Hebrew | Hebr | | Hebrew | he | | |
Judeo-Persian | jpr | N |
Judeo-Arabic | jrb |
Ladino | lad |
Yiddish | yi |
Samaritan Aramaic | sam | O |
Imperial Aramaic | Armi | N | Aramaic | arc | O | N |
Inherited | Zinh | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Inscriptional Pahlavi | Phli | N | Pahlavi | pal | O | N |
Inscriptional Parthian | Prti | N | Parthian | xpr | O | N |
Japanese | Jpan | | Japanese | ja | | |
Javanese | Java | | Javanese | jv | | N |
Kaithi | Kthi | N | Bihari | bh | | N |
Kannada | Knda | | Kannada | kn | | N |
Tulu | tcy |
Katakana | Kana | | Ainu | ain | | N |
Kayah Li | Kali | | Eastern Kayah | eky | | N |
Western Kayah | kyu |
Kharoshthi | Khar | N | Prakrit Language | pra | | N |
Khmer | Khmr | | Khmer | km | | |
Korean | Kore | | Korean | ko | | |
Lanna | Lana | | Northern Thai | nod | | N |
Lao | Laoo | | Lao | lo | | |
Latin | Latn | | Afrikaans | af | | |
Aymara | ay |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bislama | bi |
Bosnian | bs |
Catalan | ca |
Chamorro | ch |
Chuukese | chk |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
German | de |
Efik | efi |
English | en |
Spanish | es |
Estonian | et |
Finnish | fi |
Filipino | fil |
Fijian | fj |
Faroese | fo |
French | fr |
Irish | ga |
Gilbertese | gil |
Guarani | gn |
Swiss German | gsw |
Manx | gv |
Hausa | ha |
Hiri Motu | ho |
Croatian | hr |
Haitian | ht |
Hungarian | hu |
Indonesian | id |
Igbo | ig |
Icelandic | is |
Italian | it |
Kuanyama | kj |
Kalaallisut | kl |
Kosraean | kos |
Kirghiz | ky |
Luxembourgish | lb |
Lingala | ln |
Lithuanian | lt |
Latvian | lv |
Malagasy | mg |
Marshallese | mh |
Maori | mi |
Malay | ms |
Maltese | mt |
Nauru | na |
Norwegian Bokmål | nb |
North Ndebele | nd |
Niuean | niu |
Dutch | nl |
Norwegian Nynorsk | nn |
South Ndebele | nr |
Northern Sotho | nso |
Nyanja | ny |
Papiamento | pap |
Palauan | pau |
Polish | pl |
Pohnpeian | pon |
Portuguese | pt |
Quechua | qu |
Rundi | rn |
Romanian | ro |
Kinyarwanda | rw |
Sango | sg |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Samoan | sm |
Shona | sn |
Somali | so |
Albanian | sq |
Serbian | sr |
Swati | ss |
Southern Sotho | st |
Sundanese | su |
Swedish | sv |
Swahili | sw |
Tetum | tet |
Tajik | tg |
Turkmen | tk |
Tokelau | tkl |
Tswana | tn |
Tongan | to |
Tok Pisin | tpi |
Turkish | tr |
Tsonga | ts |
Tuvalu | tvl |
Tahitian | ty |
Central Atlas Tamazight | tzm |
Ulithian | uli |
Uzbek | uz |
Venda | ve |
Vietnamese | vi |
Wolof | wo |
Xhosa | xh |
Yapese | yap |
Yoruba | yo |
Zulu | zu |
Afar | aa | N |
Achinese | ace |
Acoli | ach |
Adangme | ada |
Aghem | agq |
Ainu | ain |
Akan | ak |
Aleut | ale |
Amo | amo |
Aragonese | an |
Mapuche | arn |
Arapaho | arp |
Arawak | arw |
Asu | asa |
Asturian | ast |
Baluchi | bal |
Balinese | ban |
Basaa | bas |
Batak Toba | bbc |
Bemba | bem |
Bena | bez |
Bikol | bik |
Bini | bin |
Buhid | bku |
Siksika | bla |
Bambara | bm |
Koro Wachi | bqv |
Breton | br |
Bushi | buc |
Buginese | bug |
Batak | bya |
Caddo | cad |
Carib | car |
Cayuga | cay |
Atsam | cch |
Cebuano | ceb |
Chiga | cgg |
Mari | chm |
Chinook Jargon | chn |
Choctaw | cho |
Chipewyan | chp |
Cherokee | chr |
Cheyenne | chy |
Corsican | co |
English-based Creole or Pidgin | cpe |
Cree | cr |
Kashubian | csb |
Welsh | cy |
Dakota | dak |
Taita | dav |
Delaware | del |
Slave | den |
Dogrib | dgr |
Dinka | din |
Zarma | dje |
Lower Sorbian | dsb |
Duala | dua |
Jola-Fonyi | dyo |
Dyula | dyu |
Embu | ebu |
Ewe | ee |
Ekajuk | eka |
Basque | eu |
Ewondo | ewo |
Fang | fan |
Fulah | ff |
Finno-Ugrian Language | fiu |
Fon | fon |
Northern Frisian | frr |
Eastern Frisian | frs |
Friulian | fur |
Western Frisian | fy |
Ga | gaa |
Gagauz | gag |
Gayo | gay |
Guianese Creole French | gcr |
Scottish Gaelic | gd |
Galician | gl |
Gorontalo | gor |
Grebo | grb |
Gusii | guz |
Gwichʼin | gwi |
Haida | hai |
Hawaiian | haw |
Hiligaynon | hil |
Hmong | hmn |
Hanunoo | hnn |
Hopi | hop |
Upper Sorbian | hsb |
Hupa | hup |
Herero | hz |
Iban | iba |
Ibibio | ibb |
Sichuan Yi | ii |
Inupiaq | ik |
Iloko | ilo |
Ingush | inh |
Inuktitut | iu |
Machame | jmc |
Javanese | jv |
Kabyle | kab |
Kachin | kac |
Jju | kaj |
Kamba | kam |
Tyap | kcg |
Makonde | kde |
Kabuverdianu | kea |
Koro | kfo |
Kongo | kg |
Khasi | kha |
Koyra Chiini | khq |
Kikuyu | ki |
Kalenjin | kln |
Kimbundu | kmb |
Kpelle | kpe |
Kanuri | kr |
Krio | kri |
Karelian | krl |
Shambala | ksb |
Bafia | ksf |
Colognian | ksh |
Kurdish | ku |
Kutenai | kut |
Komi | kv |
Cornish | kw |
Langi | lag |
Lamba | lam |
Ganda | lg |
Limburgish | li |
Mongo | lol |
Lozi | loz |
Luba-Katanga | lu |
Luba-Lulua | lua |
Luiseno | lui |
Lunda | lun |
Luo | luo |
Lushootseed | lut |
Luyia | luy |
Madurese | mad |
Makasar | mak |
Mandingo | man |
Masai | mas |
Maguindanaon | mdh |
Mandar | mdr |
Mende | men |
Meru | mer |
Morisyen | mfe |
Makhuwa-Meetto | mgh |
Micmac | mic |
Minangkabau | min |
Mandinka | mnk |
Mohawk | moh |
Mossi | mos |
Mundang | mua |
Creek | mus |
Mirandese | mwl |
Neapolitan | nap |
Nama | naq |
Low German | nds |
Ndonga | ng |
Nias | nia |
Kwasio | nmg |
Nuer | nus |
Navajo | nv |
Nyamwezi | nym |
Nyankole | nyn |
Nyoro | nyo |
Nzima | nzi |
Occitan | oc |
Ojibwa | oj |
Oromo | om |
Ossetic | os |
Osage | osa |
Pangasinan | pag |
Pampanga | pam |
Prussian | prg |
Rajasthani | raj |
Rapanui | rap |
Rarotongan | rar |
Réunion Creole French | rcf |
Rejang | rej |
Romansh | rm |
Rombo | rof |
Romany | rom |
Aromanian | rup |
Rwa | rwk |
Sandawe | sad |
Safaliba | saf |
Samburu | saq |
Sasak | sas |
Santali | sat |
Sangu | sbp |
Sardinian | sc |
Sicilian | scn |
Scots | sco |
Northern Sami | se |
Seneca | see |
Sena | seh |
Koyraboro Senni | ses |
Sidamo | sid |
Southern Sami | sma |
Sami Language | smi |
Lule Sami | smj |
Inari Sami | smn |
Skolt Sami | sms |
Soninke | snk |
Songhai | son |
Sranan Tongo | srn |
Serer | srr |
Saho | ssy |
Sukuma | suk |
Susu | sus |
Comorian | swb |
Congo Swahili | swc |
Tagbanwa | tbw |
Timne | tem |
Teso | teo |
Tereno | ter |
Tiv | tiv |
Tlingit | tli |
Tamashek | tmh |
Nyasa Tonga | tog |
Turoyo | tru |
Taroko | trv |
Tausug | tsg |
Tsimshian | tsi |
Tumbuka | tum |
Tasawaq | twq |
Udmurt | udm |
Uyghur | ug |
Umbundu | umb |
Votic | vot |
Vunjo | vun |
Walloon | wa |
Walser | wae |
Wakashan Language | wak |
Waray | war |
Washo | was |
Soga | xog |
Yao | yao |
Yangben | yav |
Zhuang | za |
Zapotec | zap |
Zuni | zun |
Latin | la | O | |
Esperanto | eo | N |
Etruscan | ett |
Interlingua | ia |
Oscan | osc |
Old Irish | sga |
Volapük | vo |
Umbrian | xum |
Lepcha | Lepc | | Lepcha | lep | | N |
Limbu | Limb | | Limbu | lif | | N |
Linear B | Linb | N | Ancient Greek | grc | O | N |
Lycian | Lyci | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Lydian | Lydi | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Malayalam | Mlym | | Malayalam | ml | | N |
Mandaean | Mand | | Classical Mandaic | myz | O | N |
Meitei Mayek | Mtei | | Manipuri | mni | | N |
Meroitic | Mero | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Meroitic Cursive | Merc | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Mongolian | Mong | | Mongolian | mn | | |
Manchu | mnc | N |
Myanmar | Mymr | | Burmese | my | | |
Khamti | kht | N |
Mon | mnw |
Shan | shn |
N’Ko | Nkoo | | Mandingo | man | | N |
N’Ko | nqo |
New Tai Lue | Talu | | Lü | khb | | N |
Ogham | Ogam | N | Old Irish | sga | O | N |
Ol Chiki | Olck | | Santali | sat | | N |
Old Italic | Ital | N | Etruscan | ett | O | N |
Oscan | osc |
Umbrian | xum |
Old Persian | Xpeo | N | Old Persian | peo | O | N |
Old South Arabian | Sarb | N | Sabaean | xsa | O | N |
Oriya | Orya | | Oriya | or | | N |
Santali | sat |
Orkhon | Orkh | N | Old Turkish | otk | O | N |
Osmanya | Osma | N | Somali | so | | |
Phags-pa | Phag | N | Mongolian | mn | | |
Chinese | zh |
Phoenician | Phnx | N | Phoenician | phn | O | N |
Pollard Phonetic | Plrd | | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Rejang | Rjng | N | Rejang | rej | | N |
Runic | Runr | N | German | de | | |
Samaritan | Samr | N | Samaritan Aramaic | sam | O | N |
Saurashtra | Saur | | Saurashtra | saz | | N |
Sharada | Shrd | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Shavian | Shaw | N | English | en | | |
Simplified | Hans | | Chinese | zh | | |
Cantonese | yue | N |
Zhuang | za |
Sinhala | Sinh | | Sinhala | si | | |
Pali | pi | O | N |
Sanskrit | sa |
Sora Sompeng | Sora | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform | Xsux | N | Akkadian | akk | O | N |
Hittite | hit |
Sundanese | Sund | | Sundanese | su | | |
Syloti Nagri | Sylo | | Sylheti | syl | | N |
Syriac | Syrc | | Arabic | ar | | |
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | aii | N |
Syriac | syr |
Turoyo | tru |
Tagalog | Tglg | N | Filipino | fil | | |
Tagbanwa | Tagb | N | Tagbanwa | tbw | | N |
Tai Le | Tale | | Tai Nüa | tdd | | N |
Tai Viet | Tavt | | Tai Dam | blt | | N |
Takri | Takr | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Tamil | Taml | | Tamil | ta | | |
Badaga | bfq | N |
Telugu | Telu | | Gondi | gon | | N |
Lambadi | lmn |
Telugu | te |
Thaana | Thaa | | Divehi | dv | | |
Thai | Thai | | Thai | th | | |
Kuy | kdt | N |
Western Lawa | lcp |
Eastern Lawa | lwl |
Northeastern Thai | tts |
Pali | pi | O |
Tibetan | Tibt | | Dzongkha | dz | | |
Balti | bft | N |
Tibetan | bo |
Tifinagh | Tfng | | Central Atlas Tamazight | tzm | | |
Tachelhit | shi | N |
Zenaga | zen |
Traditional | Hant | | Chinese | zh | | |
Ugaritic | Ugar | N | Ugaritic | uga | O | N |
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | Cans | | Chipewyan | chp | | N |
Cree | cr |
Plains Cree | crk |
Slave | den |
Inuktitut | iu |
Ojibwa | oj |
Unknown Script | Zzzz | n/a | Ghomala | bbj | | ? |
Bafut | bfd |
Kom | bkm |
Akoose | bss |
Bulu | bum |
Medumba | byv |
Dazaga | dzg |
Fanti | fat |
Ngomba | jgo |
Kanembu | kbl |
Kako | kkj |
Lakota | lkt |
Mafa | maf |
Maba | mde |
Meta' | mgo |
Myene | mye |
Ngiemboon | nnh |
Norwegian | no |
Ngambay | sba |
Serbo-Croatian | sh |
Chadian Arabic | shu |
Tagalog | tl |
Twi | tw |
Yemba | ybb |
Vai | Vaii | | Vai | vai | | N |
Yi | Yiii | | Sichuan Yi | ii | | N |