Latin alphabet

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alphabet script writing system

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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Observed surface forms (10)

Surface form Occurrences
Latin script 105
Classical Latin alphabet 2
Spanish alphabet 2

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.

Norse → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Nzaman → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Old East Norse → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Oskar → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
subject surface form: Overton
Pacific Gulf Yupik → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Paul → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Polynesian languages → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Renaissance Latin → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Riggs → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Sami → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Samoa → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Sarnami Hindustani → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Sassarese → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Sebastian → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Seto → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Siouan languages → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script (for many modern orthographies)
Sm’álgyax → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Southern Uto-Aztecan → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tamazight (generic) → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Tashelhit → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Thomas Hamilton → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
subject surface form: Thomas Hamilton (name)
Timo → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Tlingit → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Tongan language group → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Trefoil logo → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Ulster Irish → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Vivian Chan → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Western civilization → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
William Rogers → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Wilsen → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Wong → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Édouard → hasWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Iroquoian languages → haveWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Ossetians → historicalWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Wôpanâak → historicalWritingSystem → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
Etruscan alphabet → influenced → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → influenced → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Bantia → inscriptionScript → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Chair R → isLetterDesignatedBy → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Spanish alphabet
Parker → isWrittenIn → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Tharp → isWrittenInScript → Latin alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Latin script
F. Bol → language → Latin alphabet ⓘ
ICT → languageOfCode → Latin alphabet ⓘ
TCH → languageOfCode → Latin alphabet ⓘ
FR-IDF → languageOfCodeElements → Latin alphabet ⓘ
HH → languageOfLetters → Latin alphabet ⓘ
HND → languageOfScript → Latin alphabet ⓘ
Runic alphabet → laterReplacedBy → Latin alphabet ⓘ