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Writing Systems and Fonts

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Writing Systems (Scripts)

In case you see any small boxes ▯ ("tofu character") in the Sample column, you are missing corresponding fonts for that writing system. Please refer to the Unicode Fonts section below.

ISO 15924 Code Script Sample Is RTL? Languages
Arab Arabic العربية Arabic, Kurdish (Central), Persian, Dari, Pashto, Sindhi, Uyghur, Urdu
Armn Armenian հայերեն Armenian
Beng Bengali বাঙালি Assamese, Bengali
Cans Canadian Aboriginal syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Inuktitut
Cher Cherokee ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee
Cyrl Cyrillic кириллица Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Eastern Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Hill Mari, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Tajik, Tatar, Udmurt, Ukrainian
Deva Devanagari (Nagari) देवनागरी Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Hindi, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit
Ethi Ethiopic (Geʻez) ግዕዝ Amharic, Tigrinya
Geor Georgian (Mkhedruli) ქართული Georgian
Grek Greek ελληνικά Greek
Gujr Gujarati ગુજરાતી Gujarati
Guru Gurmukhi ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ ਦੇ Punjabi
Hans Han (Simplified) 汉字 Chinese (Simplified)
Hant Han (Traditional) 漢字 Chinese (Traditional)
Hebr Hebrew עברית Hebrew, Yiddish
Japn Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana) カタカナ Japanese
Khmr Khmer ខ្មែរ Khmer
Knda Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada
Kore Korean (Hangul + Han) 한글 Korean
Laoo Lao ລາວ Lao
Latn Latin Latin Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Mlym Malayalam മലയാളം Malayalam
Mong Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ Mongolian (Traditional)
Mtei Meitei ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ Meiteilon
Mymr Myanmar မြန်မာ Myanmar
Orya Oriya ଉତ୍କଳ ଲିପି Oriya
Sinh Sinhala සිංහල Sinhala
Taml Tamil தமிழ் Tamil
Telu Telugu తెలుగు Telugu
Thaa Thaana ތާނަ Dhivehi
Thai Thai ไทย Thai
Tibt Tibetan དབུ་ཅན་ Tibetan, Dzongkha

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924

Unicode Fonts

The following list includes only fonts with a free / open license.

Font Family Major Coverage Scripts
Google Noto Fonts Pan-Unicode Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, CJK
GNU FreeFont Pan-Unicode Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Thai
GNU Unifont Pan-Unicode Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, CJK
DejaVu Western Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin
Droid Western Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, CJK
Linux Libertine Western Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin
Ubuntu Font Family Western Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
文泉驿 (WenQuanYi) CJK Chinese
IPA明朝 (IPA Minchō) CJK Japanese
花園明朝 (Hanazono) CJK Japanese
백묵글꼴 (baekmuk) CJK Korean
KhmerOS Fonts Khmer Khmer
Lao UNICODE font Lao Lao
Myanmar3 Myanmar Myanmar
Fonts-TLWG Thai Thai
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