Script
Kurdish Latin alphabet (Hawar)
31 letters. Celadet Bedirxan published the alphabet in the journal Hawar from 1932.
- Letters
- 31
- ISO 15924
- Latn
- Direction
- Left to right
- Languages here
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01Alphabet chart
Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for ku.
- a
- b
- c
- ç
- d
- e
- ê
- f
- g
- h
- i
- î
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- ş
- t
- u
- û
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
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| Letter | Code point | Unicode name | Romanisation | Sound (IPA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | U+0061 | latin small letter a | aː | |
| b | U+0062 | latin small letter b | b | |
| c | U+0063 | latin small letter c | d͡ʒ | |
| ç | U+00E7 | latin small letter c with cedilla | t͡ʃ | |
| d | U+0064 | latin small letter d | d | |
| e | U+0065 | latin small letter e | ɛ | |
| ê | U+00EA | latin small letter e with circumflex | eː | |
| f | U+0066 | latin small letter f | f | |
| g | U+0067 | latin small letter g | ɡ | |
| h | U+0068 | latin small letter h | h | |
| i | U+0069 | latin small letter i | ɨ | |
| î | U+00EE | latin small letter i with circumflex | iː | |
| j | U+006A | latin small letter j | ʒ | |
| k | U+006B | latin small letter k | k | |
| l | U+006C | latin small letter l | l | |
| m | U+006D | latin small letter m | m | |
| n | U+006E | latin small letter n | n | |
| o | U+006F | latin small letter o | oː | |
| p | U+0070 | latin small letter p | p | |
| q | U+0071 | latin small letter q | q | |
| r | U+0072 | latin small letter r | ɾ, r | |
| s | U+0073 | latin small letter s | s | |
| ş | U+015F | latin small letter s with cedilla | ʃ | |
| t | U+0074 | latin small letter t | t | |
| u | U+0075 | latin small letter u | ʊ | |
| û | U+00FB | latin small letter u with circumflex | uː | |
| v | U+0076 | latin small letter v | v | |
| w | U+0077 | latin small letter w | w | |
| x | U+0078 | latin small letter x | x | |
| y | U+0079 | latin small letter y | j | |
| z | U+007A | latin small letter z | z |
- 31 letters. Celadet Bedirxan published the alphabet in the journal Hawar from 1932.
- The ALA-LC Kurdish table (2012) uses the Hawar letters as its romanisation.
Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified
02Transliteration
Kurdish Latin to Cyrillic, ALA-LC (2012)
Zimanê kurdî
Зьмане кӧрди
Letter by letter, from the Hawar Latin letters to Kurdish Cyrillic.
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Kurdish Latin to Cyrillic, ALA-LC (2012)
| Letter | Becomes |
|---|---|
| a | а |
| b | б |
| c | щ |
| ç | ч |
| d | д |
| e | ә |
| ê | е |
| f | ф |
| g | г |
| h | һ |
| i | ь |
| î | и |
| j | ж |
| k | к |
| l | л |
| m | м |
| n | н |
| o | о |
| p | п |
| q | ԛ |
| r | р |
| s | с |
| ş | ш |
| t | т |
| u | ӧ |
| û | у |
| v | в |
| w | ԝ |
| x | х |
| y | й |
| z | з |
| ḧ | һ’ |
| ẍ | г’ |
Sources Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Kurdish, 2012 version. (2012) Verified
Kurdish Latin to the Arabic-based alphabet, ALA-LC (2012)
| Letter | Becomes |
|---|---|
| a | ا |
| b | ب |
| c | ج |
| ç | چ |
| d | د |
| e | ە |
| ê | ێ |
| f | ف |
| g | گ |
| h | ه |
| ḧ | ح |
| i | not written |
| î | ی |
| j | ژ |
| k | ک |
| l | ل |
| ł | ڵ |
| m | م |
| n | ن |
| o | ۆ |
| p | پ |
| q | ق |
| r | ر |
| r̄ | ڕ |
| s | س |
| ş | ش |
| t | ت |
| u | و |
| û | وو |
| v | ڤ |
| w | و |
| x | خ |
| ẍ | غ |
| y | ی |
| z | ز |
| ‘ | ع |
Sources Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Kurdish, 2012 version. (2012) Verified
03Numerals
- Western digits latn
- 2026
Digits from Unicode CLDR numbering systems.
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| Digits | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western digits | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
04Standards
- ISO 15924
- Latn
- Unicode blocks
- Basic Latin (U+0000 to U+007F), Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080 to U+00FF), Latin Extended-A (U+0100 to U+017F)
- Unicode CLDR locale
- ku
- Digits
- Western digits (latn)
- Joining
- Letters stand apart.
Sources ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. (2025) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified; Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified
05Languages written in it
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کوردی / KurdîKurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish)
Western Iran: Kurdistan, Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan, Ilam, and North Khorasan
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