The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, in southern Italy (Magna Graecia).
The Latin alphabet, also known as the 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 forms the Latin script that is used to write many modern European languages, including English.
Latin or Roman script, is a writing system used to write many modern-day languages. It is the most used writing system in the world today. It is the official script for nearly all the languages of Western Europe and of some Eastern European languages.
The Latin script is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred to simply as "the alphabet" in English. It is a true alphabet which originated in the 7th century BC in Italy and has changed continually over the last 2,500 years.
As of version 15.0 of the Unicode Standard, 1,481 characters in the following 19 blocks are classified as belonging to the Latin script. [2] Basic Latin, 0000–007F. This block corresponds to ASCII. Latin-1 Supplement, 0080–00FF. Latin Extended-A, 0100–017F. Latin Extended-B, 0180–024F. IPA Extensions, 0250–02AF.
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This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter ( ch becomes Ch) unless otherwise stated ( ij becomes IJ ). This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.
Latin is an Italic language that was used in Ancient Rome. Short Latin texts have been found from about the 5th century BC and longer texts from about the 3rd century BC. Classical Latin was used in the 1st century BC and was the official language of the Roman Empire .
List of Latin-script letters. This is a list of letters of the Latin script .