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Latin alphabet

Ancient Latin alphabet

Roman alphabet for Latin

Irish uncial alphabet

Old English alphabet

Modern Latin alphabet

Accented letters & special characters

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Ancient Latin alphabet

The earliest known inscriptions in the Latin alphabet date from the6th century BC. It was adapted from the alphabet during the 7th century BC. The letters Y and Z were taken fromthe alphabet to writeGreek loan words. Other letters were added from time to time as theLatin alphabet was adapted for other languages and many letters had several different shapes.

Etruscan

Greek

Other versions of the Latin alphabet

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Roman alphabet for Latin

The Romans used just 23 letters to write Latin:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z

There were no lower case letters, and , and used only for writing words of Greek origin. The letters, and were added to the alphabet at a laterstage to write languages other than Latin. is a variant of, is a variant of , and was introducedas a 'double-v' to make a distinction between the sounds we know as'v' and 'w' which was unnecessary in Latin. KYZ JUW JIUVW

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Modern Latin alphabet

The modern Latin alphabet consists of 52 letters, including both upperand lower case, plus 10 numerals, punctuation marks and a variety ofother symbols such as,and. Many languagesadd a variety of tothe basic letters, and a few also use. &%@accents extraletters and ligatures The lowercase letters developed from cursive versions of the uppercase letters.

Uppercase

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Lowercase

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Accented letters & special characters

Accented letters

Many languages supplement the basic Latin alphabet with a variety of accented letters: These accented letters can have a number of different functions:

Modifying the pronunciation of a letter

Indicating where the stress should fall in a word

Indicating emphasis in a sentence

Indicating pitch or intonation of a word or syllable

Indicating vowel length

Visually distinguishing homophones

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Some extra letters

Eth, Thorn, Yogh and Wynn were used in ; Eth and Thorn are also usedin; the dotless i is used in , and the schwa is used in . The other letters are used in a number of West African languages, particularly in Ghana.

Old English

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Ligatures (two or three letters joined together)

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Page 2 of 3http://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm These are used in a number of languages including French, German, Icelandic, Croatian and Dutch: Click to find out how to type ligatures in ,and hereWindowsMacHTML Further information about diacritics and their usage Some of the languages written with the Latin alphabet Afaan OromoAfrikaansAlbanianAromanianAymaraAzeriBasqueBelarusian KiribatiKurdishLatinLatvianLingua Franca NovaLithuanianLojbanLombard NorwegianOccitanOld NorsePiedmontesePolishPortugueseQuechuaRomanian Saami/SamiSamoanScotsScottish GaelicSerbianSiouxSlovakSloveneSlovio SorbianSouthern SothoSpanishSwahiliSwedishTagalogTahitianTatar

WelshWolofYorubaZulu

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