Laki: writing

01Scripts

• ISO 15924 Arab · Right to left

  ئ ا ب پSouthern Kurdish in the Arabic-based alphabet

  The Kurdish Arabic-based alphabet with ۊ for a front rounded vowel and ھ for h, as CLDR records them for Southern Kurdish.

• ISO 15924 Arab · Right to left

  ا ب پ تPersian alphabet

  32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.

02Alphabet chart: Southern Kurdish in the Arabic-based alphabet

Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for sdh.

• The Kurdish Arabic-based alphabet with ۊ for a front rounded vowel and ھ for h, as CLDR records them for Southern Kurdish.
• ۊ has no value in the ALA-LC Kurdish table; its romanisation is to verify.

Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

03Alphabet chart: Persian alphabet

Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for fa.

• 32 letters. Short vowels are not written in ordinary text.
• Persian uses its own digit shapes (CLDR numbering system arabext), different from Arabic digits for 4, 5 and 6.
• Nasta’liq is the traditional calligraphic style; Naskh is the usual print style.

Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

04Numerals

05Orthography and standards

No official orthography body is recorded for Laki yet.

Sources ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify; ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. (2025) Verified; Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified

06Keyboards and typing

Windows

Settings, Time and language, Language and region: add the language, then its keyboard. Switch with Windows key and Space.

macOS

System Settings, Keyboard, Text Input: edit Input Sources and add the keyboard. Switch from the menu bar.

Android

In the keyboard app’s settings (Gboard: Languages), add the language and choose its layout.

iPhone and iPad

Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards: add the keyboard. Switch with the globe key.

Linux

In the desktop settings (GNOME: Keyboard, Input Sources), add the layout.

Which layouts each system ships for each language changes with every release. Check the list on your device; layouts we have confirmed are named on the language’s page.

07Fonts

On this platform the language is shown with Estedad. Every face is self-hosted under an open licence.

08Sources

1. Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Exemplar characters and default numbering systems, read 2026-10-23.

2. The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Character names, code points and block ranges.

3. ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. 2025

   Verified

4. ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025

   To verify Codes cross-checked through Glottolog records; the code tables themselves were not read.

09Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

1. Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki

   Sina Ahmadi, Zahra Azin, Sara Belelli et al. · 2023 · Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

   ArticleCrossrefDataCitearXivOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

2. Equative Constructions in the Laki Language

   Parisa Najafi, Seyed Najm al-din Shahrokhi, Mohammad Hosseini · 2024 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

3. Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji

   Mehdi Mehdizadeh, habib gowhari, Gholamhosein Karimi Doostan et al. · 2017 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

4. A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Verbal Structure in the Laki Dialect and Its Relation to the Persian Verb System [In Persian]

   Ali Bazvand · 2025 · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

   ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-SA

5. Investigation of Meaning and phonological processes of Arabic words involved in Laki language [In Persian]

   Masoud Bavanpouri, Seyed Mahmoud Mirzaei Al-Husseini, Tayebeh Fathi Iranshahi · 2021 · آموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی

   ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

6. KONSTRUKSI BAHASA GURU PEREMPUAN DAN LAKI-LAKI PADA KEGIATAN AWAL PEMBELAJARAN [Language Construction of Female and Male Teachers in the Beginning of Learning Activities]

   Pipiet Palestin Amurwani · 2021 · TOTOBUANG

   ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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