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Over 130 languages typeset to date

Every language below is one I have actually set type in, not one I could theoretically handle.

The list includes right-to-left scripts, CJK, Indic and South-East Asian writing systems, Canadian Indigenous languages including syllabics, and a long tail of languages that rarely appear on a typesetter’s list at all — Hakha Chin, Michif, Juba Arabic, Marshallese, Chuukese, Zomi.

If a language you need is not here, it can almost certainly still be done. Ask.


  • Acholi
  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Assyrian
  • Bengali
  • Catalan
  • Chamorro
  • Chuukese
  • Croatian
  • Dari
  • English
  • Falam Chin
  • Finnish
  • Fulah
  • Greek
  • Hazaragi
  • Hinglish
  • Igbo
  • Inuktitut
  • Japanese
  • Karen
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kurdish
  • Lingala
  • Luxembourgish
  • Maltese
  • Michif
  • Mohawk
  • Nepali
  • Nuer
  • Oromo
  • Polish
  • Quechuan
  • Russian
  • Sesotho
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Tagalog
  • Telugu
  • Tibetan
  • Turkish
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese
  • Yoruba
  • Afrikaans
  • Algonquin
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bislama
  • Cebuano
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Cook Islands Māori
  • Czech
  • Dinka
  • Esperanto
  • Farsi
  • Flemish
  • Georgian
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hmong
  • Ilocano
  • Italian
  • Javanese
  • Karenni
  • Kirundi
  • Lao
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Mandinka
  • Mixtec
  • Mongolian
  • Niuean
  • Oji-Cree
  • Pashto
  • Portuguese
  • Rohingya
  • Samoan
  • Shona
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Tajik
  • Tetum
  • Tigrinya
  • Twi
  • Uzbek (Cyrillic)
  • Xhosa
  • Zomi
  • Akan
  • Amharic
  • Assamese
  • Belarusian
  • Burmese
  • Chaldean
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Cree
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Estonian
  • Fijian
  • French
  • German
  • Hakha Chin
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Jamaican Creole
  • Juba Arabic
  • Khmer (Cambodian)
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Luo
  • Malay
  • Marshallese
  • Mizo
  • Nahuatl
  • Norwegian
  • Ojibwe
  • Pidgin
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Serbian
  • Sinhala
  • Soninke
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Tongan
  • Ukrainian
  • Uzbek (Latin)
  • Yiddish
  • Zulu

Jaber Maycid

About the author

I'm a foreign language typesetter and multilingual desktop publisher. Since 2005 I've set type in over 130 languages, including right-to-left and Canadian Indigenous scripts — and I now build automation for the formatting work around translation.

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