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| x German alphabet |
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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...
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| x Hebrew alphabet |
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Hebrew language | Tav |
The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף-בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alephbet 'Ivri), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, and because of its place of origin, the Assyrian script (not to be confused with the Syriac alphabet...
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| x Latin alphabet |
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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...
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| x Greek alphabet |
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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...
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| x Cyrillic alphabet |
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The Cyrillic (pronounced /sɨˈrɪlɪk/) script writing system is an alphabet developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in 9th century, and used in the Slavic national languages of Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian,...
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| x Arabic alphabet |
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The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: أبجدية عربية) is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic and Urdu. After the Latin alphabet, it is the second-most widely used alphabet around the world.
The alphabet was first...
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| x Kurdish alphabet | Qa |
The Kurdish alphabet is a writing system for the Kurdish language. Three systems currently exist. The form used in Turkey was derived from the Latin alphabet by Jeladet Ali Bedirkhan in 1932, and thus is also called the Bedirxan script or more...
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| x English alphabet | English Language |
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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| x Tok Pisin alphabet | Tok Pisin Language | Latin 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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| x Demotic |
Demotic (from Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, "popular") refers to either the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, or the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. The term...
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| x Coptic alphabet |
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The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Demotic and is first Alphabetic Script used for the Egyptian Language. There are...
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| x Younger Futhark |
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Old Norse | Fe | Elder Futhark |
The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet, a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters, in use from ca. 800 CE. The reduction, paradoxically, happened at the same time as phonetic changes led...
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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...
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| x Albanian alphabet | Nj |
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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