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 |
Indonesian | id |
Kazakh | kk |
Kyrgyz | 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 |
Kachi Koli | gjk |
Gujari | gju |
Hausa | ha |
Southern Hindko | hnd |
Ingush | inh |
Khowar | khw |
Kashmiri | ks |
Kurdish | ku |
Parkari Koli | kvx |
Wadiyara Koli | kxp |
Lahnda | lah |
Laki | lki |
Southern Luri | luz |
Indus Kohistani | mvy |
Punjabi | pa |
Parsi-Dari | prd |
Dari | prs |
Domari | rmt |
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 | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
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 |
Bosnian | bs |
Kazakh | kk |
Kyrgyz | 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 |
Kurdish | ku |
Kumyk | kum |
Komi | kv |
Lak | lbe |
Lezghian | lez |
Moksha | mdf |
Mansi | mns |
Western Mari | mrj |
Erzya | myv |
Nogai | nog |
Ossetic | os |
Romany | rom |
Rusyn | rue |
Sakha | sah |
Northern Sami | se |
Selkup | sel |
Tabassaran | tab |
Tatar | tt |
Tuvinian | tyv |
Udihe | ude |
Udmurt | udm |
Uyghur | ug |
Kalmyk | xal |
Nenets | yrk |
Church Slavic | cu | O |
Deseret | Dsrt | N | English | en | | |
Devanagari | Deva | | Hindi | hi | | |
Nepali | ne |
Angika | anp | N |
Awadhi | awa |
Bantawa | bap |
Bagheli | bfy |
Bhili | bhb |
Bhojpuri | bho |
Kanauji | bjj |
Braj | bra |
Bodo | brx |
Bateri | btv |
Garhwali | gbm |
Eastern Gurung | ggn |
Gondi | gon |
Western Gurung | gvr |
Chhattisgarhi | hne |
Ho | hoc |
Hadothi | hoj |
Jumli | jml |
Kachchi | kfr |
Konkani | kok |
Kurukh | kru |
Kashmiri | ks |
Limbu | lif |
Magahi | mag |
Maithili | mai |
Eastern Magar | mgp |
Marathi | mr |
Western Magar | mrd |
Marwari | mwr |
Newari | new |
Rajbanshi | rjs |
Santali | sat |
Sindhi | sd |
Sirmauri | srx |
Eastern Tamang | taj |
Western Tamang | tdg |
Thulung | tdh |
Dangaura Tharu | thl |
Kochila Tharu | thq |
Rana Tharu | thr |
Kathoriya Tharu | tkt |
Southwestern Tamang | tsf |
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 | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Gothic | Goth | N | Gothic | got | O | N |
Greek | Grek | | Greek | el | | |
Balkan Gagauz Turkish | bgx | N |
Coptic | cop | O |
Ancient Greek | grc |
Gujarati | Gujr | | Gujarati | gu | | N |
Gurmukhi | Guru | | Punjabi | pa | | N |
Han | Hani | | Vietnamese | vi | | |
Hangul | Hang | | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
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 | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Kannada | Knda | | Kannada | kn | | N |
Tulu | tcy |
Katakana | Kana | | Ainu | ain | | N |
Central Okinawan | ryu |
Kayah Li | Kali | | Eastern Kayah | eky | | N |
Western Kayah | kyu |
Kharoshthi | Khar | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Khmer | Khmr | | Khmer | km | | |
Korean | Kore | | Korean | ko | | |
Lanna | Lana | | Northern Thai | nod | | N |
Lao | Laoo | | Lao | lo | | |
Khmu | kjg | N |
Latin | Latn | | Afrikaans | af | | |
Aymara | ay |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bislama | bi |
Bosnian | bs |
Catalan | ca |
Chamorro | ch |
Chuukese | chk |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
German | de |
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 |
Hiri Motu | ho |
Croatian | hr |
Haitian | ht |
Hungarian | hu |
Indonesian | id |
Icelandic | is |
Italian | it |
Kalaallisut | kl |
Kosraean | kos |
Kyrgyz | 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 |
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 |
Uab Meto | aoz |
Mapuche | arn |
Arapaho | arp |
Arawak | arw |
Asu | asa |
Asturian | ast |
Atikamekw | atj |
Baluchi | bal |
Balinese | ban |
Basaa | bas |
Batak Toba | bbc |
Ghomala | bbj |
Bemba | bem |
Bena | bez |
Bafut | bfd |
Bikol | bik |
Bini | bin |
Kom | bkm |
Buhid | bku |
Siksika | bla |
Bambara | bm |
Bomu | bmq |
Koro Wachi | bqv |
Breton | br |
Akoose | bss |
Rinconada Bikol | bto |
Bushi | buc |
Buginese | bug |
Bulu | bum |
Bube | bvb |
Batak | bya |
Medumba | byv |
Jenaama Bozo | bze |
Kɛlɛngaxo Bozo | bzx |
Caddo | cad |
Carib | car |
Cayuga | cay |
Atsam | cch |
Cebuano | ceb |
Chiga | cgg |
Chinook Jargon | chn |
Choctaw | cho |
Chipewyan | chp |
Cheyenne | chy |
Corsican | co |
Cree | cr |
Southern East Cree | crj |
Northern East Cree | crl |
Kashubian | csb |
Welsh | cy |
Dakota | dak |
Taita | dav |
Delaware | del |
Slave | den |
Dogrib | dgr |
Dinka | din |
Zarma | dje |
Dan | dnj |
Lower Sorbian | dsb |
Tomo Kan Dogon | dtm |
Duala | dua |
Jola-Fonyi | dyo |
Dyula | dyu |
Embu | ebu |
Ewe | ee |
Efik | efi |
Ekajuk | eka |
Basque | eu |
Ewondo | ewo |
Fang | fan |
Fulah | ff |
Tornedalen Finnish | fit |
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 |
Eastern Gurung | ggn |
Galician | gl |
Gorontalo | gor |
Gronings | gos |
Grebo | grb |
Guajajára | gub |
Gusii | guz |
Gwichʼin | gwi |
Hausa | ha |
Haida | hai |
Hawaiian | haw |
Hiligaynon | hil |
Hmong | hmn |
Hanunoo | hnn |
Hopi | hop |
Upper Sorbian | hsb |
Hupa | hup |
Herero | hz |
Iban | iba |
Ibibio | ibb |
Igbo | ig |
Sichuan Yi | ii |
Inupiaq | ik |
Iloko | ilo |
Ingush | inh |
Inuktitut | iu |
Machame | jmc |
Javanese | jv |
Kabyle | kab |
Kachin | kac |
Jju | kaj |
Kamba | kam |
Xaasongaxango | kao |
Tyap | kcg |
Kalanga | kck |
Makonde | kde |
Kabuverdianu | kea |
Koro | kfo |
Kongo | kg |
Komering | kge |
Kaingang | kgp |
Khasi | kha |
Koyra Chiini | khq |
Kikuyu | ki |
Kuanyama | kj |
Kalenjin | kln |
Kimbundu | kmb |
Kpelle | kpe |
Kanuri | kr |
Krio | kri |
Karelian | krl |
Shambala | ksb |
Bafia | ksf |
Colognian | ksh |
Kurdish | ku |
Kutenai | kut |
Kerinci | kvr |
Cornish | kw |
Langi | lag |
Lamba | lam |
Tolaki | lbw |
Ganda | lg |
Limburgish | li |
Lombard | lmo |
Mongo | lol |
Lozi | loz |
Luba-Katanga | lu |
Luba-Lulua | lua |
Luiseno | lui |
Lunda | lun |
Luo | luo |
Lushootseed | lut |
Luyia | luy |
Madurese | mad |
Mafa | maf |
Makasar | mak |
Mandingo | man |
Masai | mas |
Central Mazahua | maz |
Maguindanaon | mdh |
Mandar | mdr |
Mbere | mdt |
Mende | men |
Meru | mer |
Morisyen | mfe |
Makhuwa-Meetto | mgh |
Mbunga | mgy |
Micmac | mic |
Minangkabau | min |
Montagnais | moe |
Mohawk | moh |
Mossi | mos |
Mundang | mua |
Creek | mus |
Kita Maninkakan | mwk |
Mirandese | mwl |
Manyika | mxc |
Neapolitan | nap |
Nama | naq |
Central Huasteca Nahuatl | nch |
Low German | nds |
Ndonga | ng |
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl | nhe |
Western Huasteca Nahuatl | nhw |
Nias | nia |
Ngaju | nij |
Kwasio | nmg |
Naskapi | nsk |
Nuer | nus |
Navajo | nv |
Naxi | nxq |
Nyamwezi | nym |
Nyankole | nyn |
Nyoro | nyo |
Nzima | nzi |
Occitan | oc |
Ojibwa | oj |
Oromo | om |
Osage | osa |
Pangasinan | pag |
Pampanga | pam |
Nigerian Pidgin | pcm |
Pökoot | pko |
Prussian | prg |
Punu | puu |
Rajasthani | raj |
Rapanui | rap |
Rarotongan | rar |
Réunion Creole French | rcf |
Rejang | rej |
Riang (India) | ria |
Romansh | rm |
Kalo Finnish Romani | rmf |
Sinte Romani | rmo |
Tavringer Romani | rmu |
Ronga | rng |
Tae' | rob |
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 |
North Slavey | scs |
Northern Sami | se |
Seneca | see |
Cebaara Senoufo | sef |
Sena | seh |
Koyraboro Senni | ses |
Tachelhit | shi |
Sidamo | sid |
Southern Sami | sma |
Lule Sami | smj |
Inari Sami | smn |
Skolt Sami | sms |
Soninke | snk |
Sora | srb |
Sranan Tongo | srn |
Serer | srr |
Saho | ssy |
Sundanese | su |
Sukuma | suk |
Susu | sus |
Comorian | swb |
Congo Swahili | swc |
Sangir | sxn |
Seki | syi |
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 |
Tooro | ttj |
Tumbuka | tum |
Tasawaq | twq |
Udmurt | udm |
Uyghur | ug |
Umbundu | umb |
Vai | vai |
Virgin Islands Creole English | vic |
Votic | vot |
Vunjo | vun |
Walloon | wa |
Walser | wae |
Waray | war |
Washo | was |
Xavánte | xav |
Soga | xog |
Yao | yao |
Yangben | yav |
Yemba | ybb |
Yucateco | yua |
Zhuang | za |
Zapotec | zap |
Zeeuws | zea |
Negeri Sembilan Malay | zmi |
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 | Lycian | xlc | O | N |
Lydian | Lydi | N | Lydian | xld | O | N |
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 | Meroitic | xmr | O | N |
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 |
Literary Chinese | lzh | O | N |
Phoenician | Phnx | N | Phoenician | phn | O | N |
Pollard Phonetic | Plrd | | Large Flowery Miao | hmd | | N |
Qaac | Qaac | N | Unknown Language | und | ? | ? |
Rejang | Rjng | N | Rejang | rej | | N |
Runic | Runr | N | German | de | | |
Old Norse | non | O | N |
Samaritan | Samr | N | Samaritan Aramaic | sam | O | N |
Samaritan | smp |
Saurashtra | Saur | | Saurashtra | saz | | N |
Sharada | Shrd | N | Sanskrit | sa | O | N |
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 | Sora | srb | | N |
Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform | Xsux | N | Akkadian | akk | O | N |
Hittite | hit |
Sundanese | Sund | | Sundanese | su | | N |
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 | Dogri | doi | | N |
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 |
Eastern Tamang | taj |
Tshangla | tsj |
Tifinagh | Tfng | | Central Atlas Tamazight | tzm | | |
Tachelhit | shi | N |
Zenaga | zen |
Standard Moroccan Tamazight | zgh |
Traditional | Hant | | Chinese | zh | | |
Ugaritic | Ugar | N | Ugaritic | uga | O | N |
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | Cans | | Chipewyan | chp | | N |
Cree | cr |
Southern East Cree | crj |
Plains Cree | crk |
Northern East Cree | crl |
Moose Cree | crm |
Swampy Cree | csw |
Slave | den |
Inuktitut | iu |
Naskapi | nsk |
Ojibwa | oj |
Unknown Script | Zzzz | n/a | Dazaga | dzg | | ? |
Fanti | fat |
Ngomba | jgo |
Kanembu | kbl |
Kako | kkj |
Lakota | lkt |
Maba | mde |
Meta' | mgo |
Myene | mye |
Ngiemboon | nnh |
Norwegian | no |
Ngambay | sba |
Serbo-Croatian | sh |
Chadian Arabic | shu |
Tagalog | tl |
Twi | tw |
Vai | Vaii | | Vai | vai | | N |
Yi | Yiii | | Sichuan Yi | ii | | N |