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The Somali Latin alphabet is an official writing system in the Federal Republic of Somalia and its constituent Federal Member States.It was developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W. Andrzejewski and Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for transcribing the Somali language, and is based on the Latin script.
The first project for a Tatar-Bashkir Latin alphabet was published in ئشچی (Eşce, "The Worker") newspaper on 18 July 1924. [2] Sounds specific to the Bashkir language were written with digraphs. [1] Following the publication, the Latin Dustь ("friend of the Latin") society was formed in Kazan on 16 November 1924. It suggested its own ...
In the Latin script, pentagraphs are found primarily in Irish orthography. There is one archaic pentagraph in German orthography , which is found in the English words Nie tzsch ean and derivatives ( Nietzscheanism , Nietzscheanist, Nietzscheism, Nietzscheist).
It was written in the Tajik SSR in a standardized Latin script from 1926 until the late 1930s, when the script was officially changed to Cyrillic. However, Tajik phonology differs slightly from that of Persian in Iran. As a result of these two factors romanization schemes of the Tajik Cyrillic script follow rather different principles. [19]
The script became prominent with the spread of Islam, supplanting the earlier writing systems. The Malays held the script in high esteem as it is the gateway to understanding Islam and its Holy Book, the Quran. The use of Jawi script was a key factor driving the emergence of Malay as the lingua franca of the region, alongside the spread of ...
Regions using script de facto Latin Latin Alphabet: 4900+ [2] [note 2] Latin [note 3] and Romance languages (languages that evolved from Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian) Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages) [note 4] Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic) [note 5] Baltic languages ...
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1]
