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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was borrowed and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome, whose alphabet was then adapted and further modified by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. 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. With the age of colonialism and Christian evangelism, the Latin alphabet was spread overseas, and applied to Indigenous American, Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, East Asian, and African languages. 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 creating written standards for non-European languages, such as the African reference alphabet. In modern usage, the term Latin alphabet is used for any direct derivation of the alphabet first used to write Latin. These variants may discard letters from the classical Roman script (like the Rotokas alphabet) or add new characters to it, as from the Danish and Norwegian alphabet. Letter shapes have changed over the centuries, including the creation of entirely new lower case characters. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Did the German language ever use a different alphabet like not latin alphabet.? Q. Did German ever use a non latin alphabet like futhark and what version of furthark if they did use it? Asked by travisman1994 - Wed Dec 30 22:18:03 2009 - - 0 Answers - 0 Comments A. I think you mixed up "Germanic" with "German" "FUTHARK" are a runic alphabet used for Scandinavian languages, aka germanic languages, in ancient times. It was NEVER used for GERMAN. From Wikipedia: The three best-known runic alphabets are the Elder Futhark (around 150 to 800 AD), the Old English Futhorc (400 to 1100 AD), and the Younger Futhark (800 1100). The Younger Futhark is further divided into the long-branch runes (also called Danish, although they were also used in Norway and Sweden), short-twig or Roek runes (also called Swedish-Norwegian, although they were also used in Denmark), and the Haelsinge runes (staveless runes). The Younger Futhark developed further into the Marcomannic runes, the Medieval runes (1100 AD to 1500 AD), [cont.] Answered by bryan_q - Wed Dec 30 22:58:30 2009 what do you call arabic written in latin alphabet,i would like to know so i could learn how to say the words? Q. I don't already know the arabic written in arabic characters, i would like to learn each arabic word before learn how to write the arabic writing,and also i could order an arabic dictionary with the words written in latin alphabet if i knew the name for it first. Asked by mike - Sat Jun 12 10:43:03 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. This is called romanization. When looking at the comparison table in the link below, look at the far right column 'online script' to see the possible transliteration choices for each letter. I didn't know you could get such a dictionary! I use Hans Wehr's Arabic-English dictionary, it's the best in my opinion. It's not hard to learn the Arabic alphabet and much better to do that than try and get by with romanization. It won't take you more than a week. You can see the roots and patterns in the words much better if you read the Arabic. Answered by Susan - Mon Jun 14 06:10:30 2010 How many countries in the world use the Latin alphabet?
Q. And how many other alphabets are their? Asked by 1st Earl Jellicoe - Tue Apr 7 19:46:47 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. The answer to both parts of your question is a lot, probably hundreds. Rehana: you seem to have misunderstood the question; which alphabet do you think English is written with..? Answered by GrahamH - Tue Apr 7 19:53:22 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "latin alphabet"  wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:05:09 GMT+00:00 New York Times (blog) Here's the puzzle: Using only the odd-numbered letters of the alphabet , spell the 11-letter name of a famous fictional character in two words: acegikmoqsuwy ...  businessmirror.com.ph Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:11:54 GMT+00:00 Business Mirror At the tender age of 3, he learned the alphabet with the help of his mother. At the age of 5, he was already an artist. He made pencil drawings and clay ...  blogdei.com Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:21:02 GMT+00:00 Voxdei Il lui avait impose une constitution republicaine, un regime laique, un mode de vie europeen et un alphabet latin . En politique etrangere, il avait fixe ... From Google News Search: "latin alphabet"  media3.washingtonpost.com 471px x 697px | 397.10kB [source page]  d.yimg.com 369px x 475px | 26.50kB [source page]  nationalarchives.gov.uk 333px x 588px | 73.00kB [source page] Our monk will keep an eye on proceedings Exploring letters Following the Explore letters link from the lessons panel will take you to the Letter Selector application It allows you to examine how each letter in the hand appears From Yahoo Image Search: "latin alphabet"  thecartdriver.com luffyluffy Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:16:21 GM I personally value practicallity over aesthetic value. As beautiful an alphabet Kanji is, it's so ridiculously complicated compared to the . Latin alphabet. I'm surprised they've stuck with it for so long ... From Google Blog Search: "latin alphabet" |
