Latin alphabet

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• ABC's
• Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
• Alphabet
• called the Roman alphabet
• Latalpha
• Latin
• Latin alphabets
• Latin character
• Latin characters
• Latin letters
• Latin script
• Latin-alphabet
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• Roman Alphabet
• Roman character
• Roman letter
• Roman letters
• Roman orthography
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1. is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today

   

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2. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, and was initially developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language

   

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3. During the Middle Ages, it was adapted to the Romance languages, the direct descendants of Latin, as well as to the Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, and some Slavic languages, and finally to most of the languages of Europe

   

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4. With the age of colonialism and Christian proselytism, the Latin alphabet was spread overseas, and applied to Amerindian, Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, East Asian, and African languages

   

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5. More recently, western linguists have also tended to prefer the Latin alphabet or the International Phonetic Alphabet (itself largely based on the Latin alphabet) when transcribing or devising written standards for non-European languages, such as the

   

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   Latin alphabet world distribution

   

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   The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known forms of the Old Latin alphabet

   

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8. 

   Rekenaar 1553

   1553

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9. It is generally held that the Latins adopted the Cumae alphabet‎, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century B.C. from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy

   history

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10. 

    Ioanne Arnoldo 1541

    1541

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11. In the course of its use, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use in new languages, sometimes representing phonemes not found in languages that were already written with the Roman characters

    extension

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12. Words from languages natively written with other scripts, such as Arabic or Chinese, are usually transliterated or transcribed when embedded in Latin text or in multilingual international communication, a process termed romanization

    romanization

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13. By the 1960s it became apparent to the computer and telecommunications industries in the First World that a non-proprietary method of encoding characters was needed

    international latin standard

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