The information on my 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 | Cyrillic based, Latin based, Thai |
| Avestan | Avestan |
| Bitstream CyberCJK | Chinese Traditional and Simplified, Japanese, Korean |
| Code2000 | Buhid, Hebrew based (Hebrew, Yiddish), Klingon |
| Dai Banna SIL Book | New Tai Lue (Tai Lü) |
| East Syriac Adiabene | Nestorian (Eastern Syriac) |
| Estrangelo Antioch | Estrangelo (Common Syriac) |
| Gadelica | Latin based (Irish Uncial) |
| Gautami | Telugu |
| GF Zemen Unicode | Ethiopic (Amharic, Geez, Tigrinya) |
| Guttman Rashi | Hebrew based (Ladino) |
| HumboldtFraktur | Latin based (German Fraktur) |
| JG Pahawh Third Version | Hmong (Third Version) |
| JG Pahawh Final Version | Hmong (Final Version) |
| Jomolhari | Tibetan (Dzongkha, Tibetan) |
| Kalinga | Oriya |
| Khmer OS | Khmer |
| Kurdish AllAlphabets | Arabic based (Kurdish) |
| KurKlim | Old Church Slavonic |
| Malithi Web | Sinhalese |
| Meetei Mayek (non-Unicode) | Manipuri / Meitei |
| Mongolian Baiti | Classical Mongolian (Mongolian) |
| MPH 2B Damase | Cherokee, Glagolitic, Gothic, Hanunóo, Limbu, Old Persian cuneiform, Tai Le, Thaana (Divehi), Tifinagh (Tamazight) |
| Myanmar1 | Burmese |
| Nafees Nastaleeq | Arabic based (Punjabi, Urdu) |
| New Athena Unicode | Coptic |
| Riwaj | Arabic based (Arabic, Dari, Kashmiri, Persian, Pashto, Saraiki, Sindhi, Tajik) |
| 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 |
| ThoolikaUnicode | Malayalam |
| Times New Roman | Greek |
| TITUS Cyberbit Basic | Ogham, Runic |
| Tunga | Kannada |
| UKIJ Tuz | Arabic based (Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Uyghur, Uzbek) |
| 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.
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.
Country Index • Language Codes
| Days | Months | Months2 | Planets | Continents | Zones | 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. Any corrections and additions are VERY welcome!
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