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    An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] .

  3. An alphabet is a writing system, a list of symbols for writing. The basic symbols in an alphabet are called letters. In an alphabet, each letter is a symbol for a sound or related sounds. To make the alphabet work better, more signs assist the reader: punctuation marks, spaces, standard reading direction, and so on.

  4. Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.

  5. The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography.

  6. English at a glance. Native name: English [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic. Number of speakers: c. 1.2 billion. Spoken in: the UK, Ireland, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many other countries. First written: 5th century.

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