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3 days ago · Roman numerals use different symbols for each power of ten and there is no zero symbol, in contrast with the place value notation of Arabic numerals (in which place-keeping zeros enable the same digit to represent different powers of ten).
1 day ago · History of the alphabet. A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter.
2 days ago · K, Q, W and Y, not part of the native alphabet, were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982 and are mostly used to write loanwords like kilogram, quasar, watt, and yoga. The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin script with five additional letters Ă , Â , Î , Ș , Ț .
1 day ago · A number of languages have switched from Cyrillic to either a Roman-based orthography or a return to a former script. Cyrillic alphabets continue to be used in several Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian) and non-Slavic (Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Gagauz, Mongolian) languages.
2 days ago · The Latin alphabet is directly derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets. By the late Roman Republic (75 BC), Old Latin had evolved into standardized Classical Latin.
2 days ago · Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine ).
4 days ago · About Non-Roman alphabet cataloging (CJK) In addition to cataloging Roman language monographs, we also catalog and maintain Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and other Non-Roman language books. Non-Roman script is text in its original writing system, not one based upon the Roman alphabet.
