Wherever possible I’ve shown the local form in the native script (Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, etc.) with Latin transliterations / transcriptions. This was possible using Unicode. An excellent source of information about Unicode is Alan Wood’s Unicode site. The information on this site comes from a variety of sources. Some very helpful similar sites are: Celvin Ruisdael’s site “Countries of the World in 40 Languages” Gwillim Law’s site on “statoids” The World Gazetteer GeoHive: Global Statistics KNAB, the Place Names Database of EKI (Eesti Keele Instituut) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A wonderful French site full of information about languages: LEXILOGOS Another great site mostly about Native North American languages: LANGUAGEGEEK I especially want to thank many friendly people from embassies and diplomatic missions all over the world for their help in correcting the country entries. ⇨ Some languages need special fonts installed on your computer to be displayed correctly. A great site about fonts and what they actually look like is WAZU JAPAN’s Gallery of Unicode Fonts. font used on the site: for these scripts (languages): Aboriginal Serif Unified Canadian Aboriginal (Cree, Inuktitut, Ojibwa) Akkadian Akkadian cuneiform (Akkadian, Sumerian) Akshar Unicode Tamil Arial Arabic based (Arabic, Dari, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Malay Jawi, Pashto, Sindhi, Tajik, Tatar, Uyghur, Uzbek), Thai Avestan Avestan Bitstream CyberCJK Chinese Traditional and Simplified, Japanese, Korean Code2000 Bopomofo, Buhid, Klingon, Tengwar Dai Banna SIL Book New Tai Lue (Tai Lü) DejaVu Sans Cyrillic based, Greek, Latin based East Syriac Adiabene Nestorian (Eastern Syriac) Eeyek Unicode Manipuri / Meitei Estrangelo Antioch Estrangelo (Common Syriac) Gadelica Latin based (Irish Uncial) Gautami Telugu GF Zemen Unicode Ethiopic (Amharic, Ge’ez, Tigrinya) HumboldtFraktur Latin based (German Fraktur) IranNastaliq Arabic based (Persian) JG Pahawh Final Version Hmong (Final Version) JG Pahawh Third Version Hmong (Third Version) Jomolhari Tibetan (Dzongkha, Tibetan) Kalinga Oriya Khmer OS Khmer KurKlim Old Church Slavonic Malithi Web Sinhalese Mongolian Baiti Classical Mongolian (Manchu, Mongolian, Xibe) MPH 2B Damase Cherokee, Glagolitic, Gothic, Hanunóo, Limbu, Old Persian cuneiform, Tai Le, Thaana (Divehi), Tifinagh (Tamazight) Myanmar1 Burmese Nafees Nastaleeq Arabic based (Balochi, Saraiki, Urdu, Western Punjabi) New Athena Unicode Coptic Quivira Old Lisu (Lisu) Saab Gurmukhi (Punjabi) Sanskrit 2003 Devanagari based (Bhojpuri, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Sindhi) Saweri Buginese Saysettha Unicode Lao Serto Jerusalem Jacobite / Serto (Western Syriac) Shruti Gujarati SIL Yi Yi Sylfaen Armenian, Georgian Tahoma Hebrew based (Bukhori, Gruzinic, Hebrew, Judeo-Tat, Ladino, Yiddish) ThoolikaUnicode Malayalam TITUS Cyberbit Basic Ogham, Runic Tunga Kannada Vrinda Bengali based (Assamese, Bengali) YOzFontN04 Ainu Katakana You can see if all characters are displayed correctly by checking the alphabet pages linked in the menu table below. These alphabet tables are only meant as a test and to show you my transcription system. An outstanding source of information about writing systems is the Omniglot site. Some links to online dictionaries and glossaries: Free Online Translation Online Talking Dictionary Universal dictionary English – Alabama dictionary English – Albanian dictionary | Fjalor anglisht – shqip English – Amharic dictionary | እንግሊዝኛ - አማርኛ መዝገበ ቃላት English – Arabic dictionary | قاموس إنجليزي عربي English – Armenian dictionary | Անգլերեն - հայերեն բառարան English – Assamese dictionary | ইংৰাজী - অসমীয়া অভিধান English – Azerbaijani dictionary | İngiliscə – Azərbaycanca lüğət English – Basque dictionary | Ingeles – euskara hiztegia English – Belarusian – Polish – Russian – Ukrainian dictionary | Ангельска – беларускі слоўнік | Słownik angielsko – polski | Английско – русский словарь | Анґлійсько – український словник English – Bengali dictionary | ইংরেজী - বাংলা অভিধান English – Bulgarian dictionary | Английско – български речник English – Cherokee dictionary | ᏲᏁᎦ - ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᏕᏠᏆᏍᏙᏗ English – Cheyenne dictionary English – Chinese dictionary | 英文中国字典 English – Cornish dictionary | Gerlyver Sawsnek – Kernewek English – Croatian dictionary | Englesko – hrvatski rječnik English – Czech dictionary | Anglicko – český slovník English – Estonian dictionary | Inglise – eesti sõnaraamat English – Finnish dictionary | Englanti – suomi sanakirja English – French – Friulian – German – Italian – Slovenian – Spanish dictionary | Dictionnaire anglais – français | Dizionari inglês – furlan | Englisch – deutsches Wörterbuch | Dizionario inglese – italiano | Angleško – slovenski slovar | Diccionario inglés – español English – Georgian dictionary | ინგლისურ - ქართული ლექსიკონი English – German – Turkish dictionary | Englisch – deutsch – türkisches Wörterbuch | İngilizce – Almanca – Türkçe sözlük English – Greek dictionary | Αγγλικό - ελληνικό λεξικό English – Gujarati dictionary | અંગ્રેજી - ગુજરાતી શબ્દકોશ English – Haitian Creole dictionary | Diksyonè angle – kreyòl ayisyen English – Hausa dictionary | Ƙamus Turanci – Hausa English – Hawaiian dictionary | Wehewehe ʻōlelo pelekane – hawaiʻi English – Hebrew dictionary | מילון אנגלי ־ עברי English – Hindi dictionary | अंग्रेज़ी - हिन्दी शब्दकोश English – Hungarian dictionary | Angol – magyar szótár English – Icelandic dictionary | Ensk – íslenska orðabók English – Indonesian dictionary | Kamus Inggris – Indonesia English – Irish Gaelic dictionary | Foclóir Béarla – Gaeilge English – Japanese dictionary | 英和辞典辞書 English – Korean dictionary | 영한사전 English – Kurdish dictionary | Ferhenga înglîzî – kurdî / فەرهەنگا ئینگلیزی کوردی English – Latvian dictionary | Angļu – latviešu vārdnīca English – Lithuanian dictionary | Anglų – lietuvių žodynas English – Malay dictionary | Kamus Inggeris – Melayu English – Maltese dictionary | Ingliż – malti dizzjunarju English – Manx dictionary | Fockleyr Baarle – Gaelg English – Manx glossary (PDF) | Fockleyr beg Baarle – Gaelg English – Maori dictionary | Papakupa Pākehā – Māori English – Mokshan dictionary | Англонь – мокшень валкс English – Mongolian dictionary | Англи – монгол толь бичиг English – multilingual dictionary English – Pashto dictionary | انګليسي پښتو قاموس English – Persian dictionary | فرهنگ انگلیسی فارسی English – Punjabi dictionary | ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸ਼ਬਦਕੋਸ਼ English – Romanian dictionary | Dicționar englez – român English – Romansh dictionary | Pledari englais – rumantsch English – Sanskrit dictionary | आङ्ग्लभाषा - संस्कृत शब्दकोशः English – Scots (Lallans) dictionary | English – Scots dictionar English – Scottish Gaelic dictionary | Faclair Beurla – Gàidhlig English – Sinhala – Tamil dictionary | ඉංග්‍රිසි - සිංහල - දමිළ ශබ්‍දකෝෂය | ஆங்கிலம் - சிங்களம் - தமிழ் அகராதி English – Somali dictionary | Ingiriisi – Soomaali qaamuus English – Swahili dictionary | Kamusi ya Kiingereza – Kiswahili English – Tagalog dictionary | Diksiyonaryo ingles – tagalog English – Tatar dictionary | Инглизчә – татарча сүзлек / İnglizçä – tatarça süzlek English – Telugu dictionary | ఇంగ్లీషు - తెలుగు నిఘంటువు English – Thai dictionary 1 | พจนานุกรม อังกฤษ - ไทย 1 English – Thai dictionary 2 | พจนานุกรม อังกฤษ - ไทย 2 English – Tigrinya dictionary | እንግሊዘኛ - ትግርኛ መዝገበ ቃላት English – Tlingit dictionary English – Turkmen dictionary | Iňlisçe – türkmençe sözlük English – Tuvan dictionary | Англи – тыва сөстүк English – Urdu dictionary 1 | انگریزی اردو لغت 1 English – Urdu dictionary 2 | انگریزی اردو لغت 2 English – Uyghur dictionary 1 | ئىنگىلىزچە - ئۇيغۇرچە لۇغىتى 1 English – Uyghur dictionary 2 | ئىنگىلىزچە - ئۇيغۇرچە لۇغىتى 2 English – Uzbek dictionary | Inglizcha – oʻzbekcha lugʻat English – Vietnamese dictionary | Từ điển Anh – Việt English – Welsh dictionary | Geiriadur Saesneg – Cymraeg English – Yiddish dictionary | ענגליש ־ ייִדישער װערטערבוך French – Breton dictionary | Dictionnaire français – breton | Geriadur galleg – brezhoneg French – Corsican dictionary | Dictionnaire français – corse | Dizziunariu francese – corsu German – Cashubian dictionary | Deutsch – kaschubisches Wörterbuch | Miemiecczi – kaszëbsczi słowôrz German – Georgian dictionary | Deutsch – georgisches Wörterbuch | გერმანული - ქართული ლექსიკონი German – Kurdish dictionary | Deutsch – kurdisches Wörterbuch | Ferhenga almanî – kurdî / فەرهەنگا ئالمانی کوردی German – Low German dictionary | Deutsch – plattdeutsches Wörterbuch | Hoochdüütsch – plattdüütsch Wöörbook German – Romansh dictionary | Deutsch – rätoromanisches Wörterbuch | Pledari tudestg – rumantsch German – Lower Sorbian dictionary | Deutsch – niedersorbisches Wörterbuch | Nimsko – serbski słownik German – Upper Sorbian dictionary | Deutsch – obersorbisches Wörterbuch | Němsko – serbski słownik Russian – Altai dictionary | Русско – алтайский словарь | Орус – алтай сӧзлик Russian – Bashkir dictionary | Русско – башкирский словарь | Урыҫса – башҡортса һүҙлек Russian – Buryat dictionary | Русско – бурятский словарь | Ород – буряад толи Russian – Crimean Tatar dictionary | Русско – крымскотатарский словарь | Rusça – qırımtatarca sözlük / Русча – къырымтатарджа сёзлюк Russian – Kalmyk dictionary | Русско – калмыцкий словарь | Орс – хальмг толь Russian – Karachay-Balkar dictionary | Русско – карачаево-балкарский словарь | Орус – къарачай-малкъар сёзлюк Russian – Karelian dictionary | Русско – карельский словарь | Venäläne – karjalaine sanakirju Russian – Kazakh dictionary | Русско – казахский словарь | Орысша – қазақша сөздік Russian – multilingual dictionary | Русско – многоязычный словарь Russian – Ossetian dictionary | Русско – осетинский словарь | Уырыссаг – ирон дзырдуат Russian – Sakha dictionary | Русско – якутский словарь | Нууччалыы – сахалыы тылдьыт And some script conversion sites: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese Conversion Chinese Pinyin converter Convert Pinyin tone numbers to tone marks Japanese Kanji to Romaji converter Korean Hangul converter Malay Jawi converter 1 Malay Jawi converter 2 Multilingual keyboards and various script conversion tables at Lexilogos Country Index • Language Codes Days Months Months2 Planets Continents Circles Mountains Oceans Seas Rivers Languages International Organizations UDHR Elements Peace People Religion Sciences Wonders Zodiac Alphabets: A-B C-E F-J K-L M-Q R-S T-Z IPA Numbers Fonts SITEMAP Glossaries: Definitions Albanian | Greek | Armenian American | Polynesian Asian Balto-Slavic Basque | Caucasus Celtic Constructed Dravidian Finno-Ugric | Samoyedic Germanic Indic Iranian Mongolic | Tungusic Romance Semitic | African Turkic I created this site with the greatest possible care, but nevertheless errors may have occurred. 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