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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Kelan writingSystem Latin alphabet
Tsou language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Rukai language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Sediq writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Seejiq hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tgdaya Seediq script Latin alphabet
Busnelli writingSystem Latin alphabet
ewo writingSystem Latin alphabet
subject surface form: Ewondo language
this entity surface form: Latin script
Lewelin writingSystem Latin alphabet
Vaiphei language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Chuwabu language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Koti language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kulisusu language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Koroni language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Konawe language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kankana-ey hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Lainez writingSystem Latin alphabet
Jenkyn script Latin alphabet
Pilar script Latin alphabet
Rosario script Latin alphabet
de Cardilhac script Latin alphabet
Fermín writingSystem Latin alphabet
Gudbrandsdalen dialect writingSystem Latin alphabet
Finnr (Old Norse) script Latin alphabet
Fynn writingSystem Latin alphabet
P. script Latin alphabet
AN script Latin alphabet
Light of the Nation hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kankanay writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Wendy writingSystem Latin alphabet
Nambya language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Ikalanga writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kwanyama writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Aambalantu hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Aakwanhama writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Standard Ndonga writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Kwanyama Bible script Latin alphabet
Ndonga Bible writingSystem Latin alphabet
Lake writingSystem Latin alphabet
Pamona hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Bare’e writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tokondindi dialect writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tentena dialect writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Novum Castellum writingSystem Latin alphabet
Beinan writingSystem Latin alphabet
subject surface form: Puyuma language
this entity surface form: Latin script
Nukufetau dialect writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Betawi language writingSystem Latin alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin script
Vlatko writingSystem Latin alphabet
TI script Latin alphabet