Macintosh alphabets

Certain languages are grouped into alphabets. Some languages are in more than one alphabet (for instance English is in almost every alphabet) so to indicate which alphabet is considered primary for a given language, it is printed in bold.

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The Electronic Font Foundry makes fonts suitable for the following alphabets:

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*Click to see full alphabet for:*	*suitable for the following languages*
Latin alphabets
Standard	Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
Icelandic	Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
Central and Eastern European	Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Gaelic, Hungarian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Sorbian.
Croatian	Albanian, Croat, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
Romanian	Albanian, Dutch, English, Gaelic, German, Italian, Moldavian (Latin), Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
Turkish	Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Kurdish (Latin), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Welsh	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Welsh.
Latin extended	Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani (Latin), Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Karelian, Kurdish (Latin), Lappish (Sami), Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Moldovian (Latin), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.
Vietnamese	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese (Latin). These are Unicode fonts suitable only for Mac OS X.
Cyrillic alphabets
Cyrillic (Slavonic)	Bulgarian, Belarusian, English, Macedonian, Moldavian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian. For Operating Systems earlier than OS 9 this alphabet was not suitable for Ukrainian language and Ukrainian alphabet should have been used instead, but since the Cyrillic alphabet have been updated to incorporate all Ukrainian letters this is no longer of any importance.
Cyrillic Extended	Abazin, Avar, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chuvash, English, Evenki, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Komi, Macedonian, Mari, Moldavian (Cyrillic), Mordvin, Nenets, Ossetian, Ostyak, Russian, Serbian, Tadzhik, Tatar, Turkmen, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek and Yakut. These are Unicode fonts suitable only for Mac OS X.
Greek alphabets
Greek (Modern)	English, German and modern Greek.
Greek (Classical)	Modern Greek and ancient Greek. These fonts are suitable for Mac OS 9 or earlier, for Mac OS X Greek Unicode should be used.
Greek Unicode	English, German, modern Greek and ancient Greek. These are Unicode fonts suitable only for Mac OS X. For earlier Mac OS Greek Ancient should be used.

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