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latin al·pha·bet

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Roman alphabet, Latin alphabetnoun

    the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe

Wiktionary

  1. Latin alphabetnoun

    The 26-letter alphabet consisting of the following letters (presented in majuscule and minuscule pairs):

  2. Latin alphabetnoun

    Any relatively minor variation of the 26-letter Latin alphabet.

  3. Etymology: Latin + alphabet.

Wikipedia

  1. Latin alphabet

    The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it is used to write English and other modern European languages. With modifications, it is also used for other alphabets, such as the Vietnamese alphabet. Its modern repertoire is standardised as the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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  1. latin alphabet

    The Latin Alphabet is a set of 26 letters or basic written symbols originally used by the Romans and later adopted, adapted and evolved by various languages around the world. The set has both uppercase and lowercase forms and begins with the letters A to Z. This alphabet forms the basis of many Western languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and others.

Wikidata

  1. Latin alphabet

    The classical Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome. The Etruscan alphabet was in turn adopted and further modified by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. During the Middle Ages, the Latin alphabet was adapted to Romance languages, direct descendants of Latin, as well as to Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, and some Slavic languages. With the age of colonialism and Christian evangelism, the Latin script was spread overseas, and applied to indigenous American, Australian, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, and African languages. More recently, linguists have also tended to prefer the Latin script or the International Phonetic Alphabet when transcribing or creating written standards for non-European languages, such as the African reference alphabet. The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin, or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin one, such as the English alphabet. These Latin-derived alphabets may discard letters, like the Rotokas alphabet, or add new letters, like the Danish and Norwegian alphabet. Letter shapes have changed over the centuries, including the creation for Medieval Latin of lower case forms which did not exist in the Classical period.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of latin alphabet in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of latin alphabet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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