Wherever possible I’ve shown the local form in the native writing system (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 sites were: Gwillim Law’s site on “statoids” 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. writing systems: languages: font used on this site: Ainu Katakana Ainu YOzFontN04 Akkadian cuneiform Akkadian, Sumerian Akkadian Arabic based Arabic, Bosnian, Comorian, Dari, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Malay Jawi, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Persian, Saraiki, Sindhi, South Azerbaijani, Tajik, Tatar, Uyghur, Uzbek Arial Arabic based Balochi, Urdu, Western Punjabi Nafees Nastaleeq Armenian Armenian Sylfaen Avestan Avestan Avestan Bengali based Assamese, Bengali Vrinda Bopomofo Chinese Code2000 Buginese Buginese Saweri Buhid Buhid Code2000 Burmese Burmese Myanmar1 Cherokee Cherokee MPH 2B Damase Chinese, traditional and simplified Chinese Bitstream CyberCJK Classical Mongolian Manchu, Mongolian, Xibe Mongolian Baiti Coptic Coptic New Athena Unicode Cyrillic based Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Aleut, Altai, Archi, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Dungan, Enets, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Ingush, Itelmen, Judeo-Tat, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Kildin Sami, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Koryak, Krymchak, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moldovan, Mongolian, Mordvin, Nanai, Nenets, Nganasan, Nivkh, Nogai, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Sakha / Yakut, Selkup, Serbian, Shor, Shughni, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Tatar, Tofa, Tsakhur, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yaghnobi DejaVu Sans Devanagari based Bhojpuri, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali, Romani, Sanskrit, Sherpa, Sindhi Sanskrit 2003 Estrangelo Common Syriac Estrangelo Antioch Ethiopic Amharic, Ge’ez, Tigrinya GF Zemen Unicode Georgian Georgian, Laz, Mingrelian, Svan Sylfaen Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic MPH 2B Damase Gothic Gothic MPH 2B Damase Greek Arvanitic, Greek DejaVu Sans Gujarati Gujarati Shruti Gurmukhi Punjabi Raavi Hanunó’o Hanunó’o MPH 2B Damase Hebrew based Bukhori, Gruzinic, Hebrew, Judeo-Tat, Ladino, Yiddish Times New Roman Hmong (Final Version) Hmong JG Pahawh Final Version Hmong (Third Version) Hmong JG Pahawh Third Version Jacobite / Serto Western Syriac Serto Jerusalem Japanese Japanese Bitstream CyberCJK Kannada Kannada, Tunga Khmer Khmer Khmer OS Klingon Klingon Code2000 Korean Korean Bitstream CyberCJK Lao Lao Saysettha Unicode Latin based Afar, Afrikaans, Akan, Alabama, Albanian, Aleut, Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Berber, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bosnian, Breton, Capeverdian Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cheyenne, Comanche, Comorian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Delaware, Dinka, Dongxiang, Dutch, Elfdalian, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Evenki, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Greenlandic, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Kabyle, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Khasi, Klallam, Kurdish, Ladin, Lakota, Latin, Latvian, Laz, Lingala, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Livonian, Low German, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mandinka, Manx, Maori, Marshallese, Miami, Micmac, Mizo, Moldovan, Nahuatl, Nama, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Saint Lucia Creole, Salar, Sami, Samoan, Samogitian, Sarikoli, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Seychelles Creole, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Talysh, Tatar, Tetum, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Veps, Vietnamese, Volapük, Voro, Votic, Wakhi, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zazaki, Zhuang, Zulu DejaVu Sans Latin based (German Fraktur) German, Low German, Luxembourgish HumboldtFraktur Latin based (Irish Uncial) Irish Gaelic Gadelica Limbu Limbu MPH 2B Damase Malayalam Malayalam AnjaliOldLipi Manipuri / Meitei Meitei Eeyek Unicode Nestorian Eastern Syriac East Syriac Adiabene New Tai Lue Tai Lü Dai Banna SIL Book Ogham Old Irish TITUS Cyberbit Basic Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic KurKlim Old Lisu Lisu Quivira Old Persian cuneiform Old Persian MPH 2B Damase Oriya Oriya Kalinga Runic Old Norse TITUS Cyberbit Basic Sinhalese Sinhalese Malithi Web Tai Le Tai Le MPH 2B Damase Tamil Tamil Akshar Unicode Telugu Telugu Gautami Tengwar Elvish Code2000 Thaana Divehi MPH 2B Damase Thai Thai Arial Unicode MS Tibetan Dzongkha, Tibetan Jomolhari Tifinagh Berber, Kabyle MPH 2B Damase Unified Canadian Aboriginal Cree, Inuktitut, Ojibwa Aboriginal Serif Yi Yi SIL Yi 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: Multilingual Dictionary hablaa.com 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 | 英汉词典 English – Cornish dictionary | Gerlyver Sowsnek – 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 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 – Maori dictionary | Papakupa Pākehā – Māori English – Mongolian dictionary | Англи – монгол толь бичиг 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 – Swahili dictionary | Kamusi ya Kiingereza – Kiswahili English – Tagalog dictionary | Diksiyonaryo ingles – tagalog 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 – 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 – 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 – Kurdish dictionary | Deutsch – kurdisches Wörterbuch | Ferhenga almanî – kurdî 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 – Avar dictionary | Русско – аварский словарь | Гӏурус – авар къамус 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 | Rus – qırımtatar sözlük / Рус – къырымтатар 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 Russian – Tatar dictionary | Русско – татарский словарь | русча – татарча сүзлек And some script conversion sites: Traditional 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 Multilingual keyboards and various script converters 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 Impressum SITEMAP Glossaries: Definitions Albanian | Greek | Armenian American | Polynesian Asian Balto-Slavic Basque | Caucasus Celtic Constructed Dravidian Germanic Indic Iranian Mongolic | Tungusic Romance Semitic | African Turkic Uralic Home | Simone Westermann | email: info@geonames.de | “What’s new”