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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was borrowed and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome, which alphabet was...
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Shavian alphabet
The Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named...
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Finnish alphabet
The Finnish alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, and especially its Swedish extension. Officially it comprises 28 letters:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z, Å, Ä, Ö
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Albanian alphabet
The modern Albanian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, and consists of 36 letters:
Note: The vowels are shown in bold. Listen (help·info) to the pronunciation of the letters.
The history of the Albanian alphabet is closely linked with the...
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Hungarian alphabet
The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet.
One sometimes speaks of the smaller and greater Hungarian alphabet, depending on whether the letters Q, W, X, Y which can only be found in foreign words and traditional orthography of...
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English alphabet
The modern English alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet consisting of 26 letters – the same letters that are found in the Basic modern Latin alphabet:
The exact shape of printed letters varies depending on the typeface. The shape of handwritten...
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Czech alphabet
The Czech alphabet is a version of the Latin alphabet, used when writing Czech. Its basic principles are "one sound - one letter" and the addition of diacritical marks above letters to represent sounds alien to Latin. The alphabets of several other...
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Italian alphabet
The Italian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Italian language. The standard contemporary Italian alphabet has 21 letters, shown in the table below.
The Italian alphabet has five vowel letters, ‹a e i o u›. Of those, only ‹a›...
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Gothic alphabet
The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Ulfilas (or Wulfila) which was used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. Before its creation in the fourth century, the Goths had used runes to write their language....
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The Gaj Latin Alphabet
Gaj's Latin alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet devised by Croat Ljudevit Gaj, in his 1830 book, Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskogo pravopisanja (A short primer of Croatian-Slavic orthography). It is the only script of the Croatian standard...
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Perso-Latin Alphabet
Perso-Latin alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet for Persian language. It consists of basic letters of Latin alphabet in addition to three letters formed with diacritics: â, š, and ž. Furthermore, apostrophe has a special use. Perso-Latin alphabet is...
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Belarusian Latin alphabet
The Belarusian Latin alphabet (also known as Latsinka (in BGN/PCGN) or Łacinka (in itself), from Belarusian: лацінка, informal for the Latin alphabet in general) — the common name of the several historically existing systems of rendering the...
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Berber Latin alphabet
The Berber Latin alphabet is the version of the Latin alphabet used to write Northern Berber languages. It uses the 23 standard letters, 7 modified letters and borrows 2 letters from the Greek alphabet. In the interests of pan-dialectal legibility,...
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Tok Pisin alphabet
The Tok Pisin alphabet contains 22 letters and 2 digraphs, five of which are vowels. The letters are (vowels in bold):
Tok Pisin has two digraphs, called:
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Old Norse alphabet
The Old Norse alphabet consists of 32 letters derived from the Latin alphabet:
