Latin alphabet

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The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
script
writing system
developedFrom Old Italic script
surface form: Etruscan alphabet

Old Italic script
encodedIn Unicode
hasBasicLetters 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
hasDirection left-to-right
hasExtendedForms Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
hasStandardLetterCount 26 letters in modern English usage
hasUppercaseAndLowercase true
hasVariants Latin alphabet self-linksurface differs
surface form: Classical Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet self-linksurface differs
surface form: Medieval Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet self-linksurface differs
surface form: Modern Latin alphabet
influenced Croatian alphabet
Czech alphabet
Hungarian alphabet
Polish alphabet
Romanian alphabet
Slovak alphabet
Swahili orthography
Turkish alphabet
Vietnamese alphabet
isMostWidelyUsedWritingSystem true
originatedIn Roman Empire
surface form: Ancient Rome
ultimatelyDerivedFrom Greek alphabet
Phoenician alphabet
UnicodeBlock Basic Latin
Latin Extended Additional
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
Latin-1 Supplement
usedForTransliterationOf Arabic script
Chinese characters
Cyrillic script
Greek script
usedIn Americas
Europe
Oceania
parts of Africa
parts of Asia
usedInDigitalCommunication true
usedInInternationalStandards Latin alphabet self-linksurface differs
surface form: ISO basic Latin alphabet
writingSystemFor Afrikaans language
Czech language
Danish language
Dutch language
English language
Esperanto
Finnish language
French language
German language
Indonesian language
Italian language
Latin language
Malay language
Norwegian language
Polish language
Portuguese language
Romanian language
Spanish language
Swahili language
Swedish language
Tagalog language
Turkish language
Vietnamese alphabet
surface form: Vietnamese language
writingSystemType alphabetic

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Wik-Mungkan hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
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this entity surface form: Latin script
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this entity surface form: Latin script
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Summit Co. writingSystem Latin alphabet
Marovo language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Michaś script Latin alphabet
Michaela script Latin alphabet
Yaeyama Ryukyuan writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Yonaguni language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Gansevoort writingSystem Latin alphabet
Lomwe of Milange hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Chuwabu writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Echilómwe writingSystem Latin alphabet
subject surface form: Echilómwe
this entity surface form: Latin script
Makonde writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Aritao Isinay writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Dupax Isinay writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Bambang Isinay writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Isinay writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Isinai hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
I-wak writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Murik language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Modang language hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kayanic writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Obo Monobo hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Rajah Kabunsuwan Manobo writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tagabawa writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
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Shelly writingSystem Latin alphabet
Tomales Bay Miwok writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
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Abebe writingSystem Latin alphabet
Iunius writingSystem Latin alphabet
Matlatzinca language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Gaius writingSystem Latin alphabet
Maléku language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kinyankole language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
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this entity surface form: Latin script
JA12 writingSystem Latin alphabet
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subject surface form: Sic Semper Tyrannis
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this entity surface form: Latin script
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this entity surface form: Latin script
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