Sentences that contain all letters commonly used in a language
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Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- 2012-04-11

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Danish (da)
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  Quizdeltagerne spiste jordbr med flde, mens cirkusklovnen
  Wolther spillede p xylofon.
  (= Quiz contestants were eating strawbery with cream while Wolther
  the circus clown played on xylophone.)

German (de)
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  Falsches ben von Xylophonmusik qult jeden greren Zwerg
  (= Wrongful practicing of xylophone music tortures every larger dwarf)

  Zwlf Boxkmpfer jagten Eva quer ber den Sylter Deich
  (= Twelve boxing fighters hunted Eva across the dike of Sylt)

  Heizlrckstoabdmpfung
  (= fuel oil recoil absorber)
  (jqvwxy missing, but all non-ASCII letters in one word)

Greek (el)
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  (= No more shall I see acacias or myrtles in the golden clearing)

     
  (= I uncover the soul-destroying abhorrence)

English (en)
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  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Spanish (es)
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  El pingino Wenceslao hizo kilmetros bajo exhaustiva lluvia y 
  fro, aoraba a su querido cachorro.
  (Contains every letter and every accent, but not every combination
  of vowel + acute.)

French (fr)
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  Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume sur son le intrieure, 
  ct de l'alcve ovode, o les bches se consument dans l'tre, ce
  qui lui permet de penser  la cnogense de l'tre dont il est question
  dans la cause ambigu entendue  Mo, dans un capharnam qui,
  pense-t-il, diminue  et l la qualit de son uvre. 

  l'le exigu
  O l'obse jury mr
  Fte l'ha volapk,
  ne ex aquo au whist,
  tez ce vu du.

  Le cur du mais l'me plutt nave, Lous rva de crapater en
  cano au del des les, prs du mlstrm o brlent les nov.

Irish Gaelic (ga)
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  D'fhuascail osa, rmhac na highe Beannaithe, pr ava agus dhaimh

Hungarian (hu)
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  rvztr tkrfrgp
  (= flood-proof mirror-drilling machine, only all non-ASCII letters)

Icelandic (is)
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  Kmi n xi hr ykist jfum n bi vl og drepa

  Svr grt an v lpan var nt
  (some ASCII letters missing)

Japanese (jp)
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  Hiragana: (Iroha)

  
  
  
  

  Katakana:

     
     

Hebrew (iw)
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  ?           

Polish (pl)
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  Pchn w t d jea lub om skrzy fig
  (= To push a hedgehog or eight bins of figs in this boat)

Russian (ru)
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       ? ,   !
  (= Would a citrus live in the bushes of south? Yes, but only a fake one!)

           
  (= Eat some more of these fresh French loafs and have some tea) 

Thai (th)
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  [The copyright for the Thai example is owned by The Computer
  Association of Thailand under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the
  King.]

Turkish (tr)
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  Pijamal hasta, yaz ofre abucak gvendi.
  (=Patient with pajamas, trusted swarthy driver quickly)


Special thanks to the people from all over the world who contributed
these sentences since 1999.

A much larger collection of such pangrams is now available at

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pangrams

