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.

The Latin, or Roman, alphabet was originally adapted from the Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century BC to write Latin. Since then it has had many different forms, and been adapted to write many other languages.

2025年1月14日 · Latin alphabet, the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and the languages of most of Europe and those areas settled by Europeans. It can be traced through the Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician scripts to the North Semitic alphabet used about 1100 BCE.

The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known forms of the Old Latin alphabet. The Latin script is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. [1] It is the standard script of the English language and is …

2019年2月23日 · The Latin alphabet originally had 21 letters in the first century BCE, but then, as the Romans became Hellenized, they added two letters at the end of the alphabet, a Y for the Greek upsilon, and a Z for the Greek zeta, which then had no equivalent in the Latin language.

The modern Latin alphabet consists of 52 letters, including both upper and lower case, plus 10 numerals, punctuation marks and a variety of other symbols such as , and .

2024年2月9日 · The Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back in time to the eras of ancient Greek and Roman dominance of the entire Western world.

The Latin alphabet (also called the Roman alphabet) appeared in the 7th century BCE as a result of the adaptation of the Etruscan alphabet to the Latin language. The Etruscans borrowed their alphabet from Greek settlers in Italy, while the Greek alphabet is derived from the North Semitic alphabet used in Syria and Palestine in the 12th century BCE.

The Romans used just 23 letters to write Latin; including the Greek letters “Y” and “Z” to the alphabet they inherited from the Etruscans. There were no lowercase letters . For phonetic reasons, the symbols “J”, “U” and “W” were added to our alphabet during the Middle Ages.

The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known forms of the Old Latin alphabet.The Latin alphabet is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. [1] . It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred to simply as "the alphabet" in English.