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  Arabic alphabet

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  Cyrillic alphabet

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  Hebrew alphabet

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  Latin alphabet

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  Coptic alphabet

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  German alphabet

  The modern German alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet consisting of 26 letters – the same letters that are found in the Basic modern Latin alphabet: The German language additionally uses three letters with diacritics and one ligature: Although the diacritic letters represent distinct sounds in...
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  Greek alphabet

  The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol. It is as such in continuous use to...
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  Younger Futhark

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  Elder Futhark

  The Elder Futhark (or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark) is the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Northwest Germanic and Migration period Germanic dialects of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artifacts such as jewellery, amulets, tools, weapons and...