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.
Observed surface forms (10)
Statements (93)
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (642)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Latin script
this entity surface form:
Latin script
this entity surface form:
Latin script