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Kurdish Cyrillic alphabet

Shown in the order of the Latin alphabet, each with its Hawar letter.

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Letters
31
ISO 15924
Cyrl
Direction
Left to right
Languages here
3

01Alphabet chart

Letters and their Latin values: ALA-LC Kurdish romanization table, 2012.

  1. аa
  2. бb
  3. щc
  4. чç
  5. дd
  6. әe
  7. еê
  8. фf
  9. гg
  10. һh
  11. ьi
  12. иî
  13. жj
  14. кk
  15. лl
  16. мm
  17. нn
  18. оo
  19. пp
  20. ԛq
  21. рr
  22. сs
  23. шş
  24. тt
  25. ӧu
  26. уû
  27. вv
  28. ԝw
  29. хx
  30. йy
  31. зz
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LetterCode pointUnicode nameRomanisationSound (IPA)
аU+0430cyrillic small letter aa
бU+0431cyrillic small letter beb
щU+0449cyrillic small letter shchac
чU+0447cyrillic small letter cheç
дU+0434cyrillic small letter ded
әU+04D9cyrillic small letter schwae
еU+0435cyrillic small letter ieê
фU+0444cyrillic small letter eff
гU+0433cyrillic small letter gheg
һU+04BBcyrillic small letter shhah
ьU+044Ccyrillic small letter soft signi
иU+0438cyrillic small letter iî
жU+0436cyrillic small letter zhej
кU+043Acyrillic small letter kak
лU+043Bcyrillic small letter ell
мU+043Ccyrillic small letter emm
нU+043Dcyrillic small letter enn
оU+043Ecyrillic small letter oo
пU+043Fcyrillic small letter pep
ԛU+051Bcyrillic small letter qaq
рU+0440cyrillic small letter err
сU+0441cyrillic small letter ess
шU+0448cyrillic small letter shaş
тU+0442cyrillic small letter tet
ӧU+04E7cyrillic small letter o with diaeresisu
уU+0443cyrillic small letter uû
вU+0432cyrillic small letter vev
ԝU+051Dcyrillic small letter wew
хU+0445cyrillic small letter hax
йU+0439cyrillic small letter short iy
зU+0437cyrillic small letter zez
  • Shown in the order of the Latin alphabet, each with its Hawar letter.
  • Used for Kurmanji in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The table also writes aspirated and emphatic consonants with an apostrophe, such as к’ and т’.

Sources Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Kurdish, 2012 version. (2012) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

02Numerals

Western digits latn
2026

Digits from Unicode CLDR numbering systems.

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Digits0123456789
Western digits0123456789

03Standards

ISO 15924
Cyrl
Unicode blocks
Cyrillic (U+0400 to U+04FF), Cyrillic Supplement (U+0500 to U+052F)
Unicode CLDR locale
none
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

04Languages written in it

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Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish Cyrillic Alphabet.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/scripts/kurdish-cyrillic/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_language_scripts_kurdish_cyrillic,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish {Cyrillic} alphabet},
	url = {https://kurds.global/language/scripts/kurdish-cyrillic/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/language/scripts/kurdish-cyrillic/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Transliterating Kurdish texts in Latin into Persian-Arabic script

    Hossein Hassani · 2021 · arXiv

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  2. Synthetic Data-Driven Transformer OCR for Kurdish Sorani via Dynamic Line Generation and Script-Aware Normalization

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  3. KSTRV1: A scene text recognition dataset for central Kurdish in (Arabic-Based) script

    Sardar Omar Salih, Karwan Jacksi · 2025 · Data in Brief

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  4. Exploiting Script Similarities to Compensate for the Large Amount of Data in Training Tesseract LSTM: Towards Kurdish OCR

    Saman Idrees, Hossein Hassani · 2021 · Applied Sciences

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  5. The Effect of Model Capacity and Script Diversity on Subword Tokenization for Sorani Kurdish

    Ali Salehi, Cassandra L. Jacobs · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

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  6. Comparison Study of Kurdish Language Alphabet to the Kurdistan Newspaper and the Current Form of Kurdish Language

    Unknown Author · 2025 · Journal of Raparin University

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  7. Solving the Issues of Kurdish Orthography according to Linguistics the issues of the syllable level as an example

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  8. Measuring Unadapted ASR on Garrusi Kurdish: Common-Reference Scoring Across Orthographic Representations

    Asadpour H · 2026 · Preprints.org

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  9. Kurdish- Arabic Text in Computer with Non-Standards, Challenges and Recommendations

    Sardar O. Salih · 2020 · Academic Journal of Nawroz University

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  10. Computational linguistics and its role in the Kurdish language Orthography and voice as a model

    Gulstan Muhammad Raheem, Dara Hamid Muhammad · 2024 · JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES

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  11. Using Punkt for Sentence Segmentation in non-Latin Scripts: Experiments on Kurdish (Sorani) Texts

    Roshna Omer Abdulrahman, Hossein Hassani · 2020 · arXiv

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  12. Extend an Algorithm of Auto-converting Kurdish Written Scripts in Websites: from Latin Characters to Kurdish/Arabic Characters and Vice Versa

    Sardar Salih · 2018 · Academic Journal of Nawroz University

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