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Somali fonts

Soomaali

Fonts for Somali in the Latin alphabet, with double vowels and the apostrophe.

Name in the language
Soomaali
Writing system
Latin
Spelling standard
Somali Latin orthography (1972)
Requirements
so-Latn 1.1.0
Fonts
8 fonts checked

Somali is written in the Latin alphabet adopted in 1972, with the letter combinations dh, kh and sh, double letters for long vowels, and the apostrophe for the glottal stop, as in ba’an. A font is listed here when it holds every letter and draws these sequences cleanly.

The Osmanya script is a separate writing system and is not part of this collection.

Characters Insert a letter, accent or apostrophe at the cursor.

Specimen text: CLDR 49 (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository): language, country and calendar names. Not yet reviewed by a fluent speaker.

8 fonts
Serif
Kenya Ingiriisi Sawaaxili Soomaali Janaayo Febraayo Maarso Abriil

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Fraunces

Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi · OFL-1.1
  • Characters checked
  • Rendering checked
  • Language review pending
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How these fonts are checked

Every claim on this page comes from the released font files, tested with the same shaping engine browsers use and with no fallback font allowed to fill a gap. Three things are tracked separately:

  • Characters checked: every required letter in capitals and small letters, every accent and the punctuation of everyday text is in every file.
  • Rendering checked: letters typed as one character and as a letter plus combining accent look the same; accents sit on their letters without touching, colliding or being cut off; i and j lose their dot under an accent.
  • Language review: a fluent speaker has read this font in this language and confirmed it. Until then a font shows “Language review pending”.

Requirements: Somali profile so-Latn 1.1.0 (Somali Latin orthography (1972)). Checker 1.0.0, last run November 1, 2026.

Sources for the requirements

  • Unicode CLDR 49 locale data (characters, language names, Gregorian calendar) (49.0.0)
  • The Unicode Standard: combining marks and normalization (UAX #15)
  • Unicode: U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE and U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  • Wikipedia: Somali Latin alphabet
  • Wikipedia: Osmanya script

Not covered by this collection

  • Osmanya script (U+10480–U+104AF): a separate extension with its own design brief, coverage and review
  • Wadaad Arabic-script Somali