Latin alphabet
English
Noun
Latin alphabet (plural Latin alphabets)
Usage notes
The Latin alphabet is used in variant forms by many languages, including Romance languages, Germanic, Celtic, some Slavic languages, Amerindian, Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian languages. The variant Latin alphabets of many of those languages discard letters from or add letters to the classical Latin alphabet. The term Latin script is often used for the entire family of alphabets.
Synonyms
- Latin script, Roman script, Roman alphabet
- abbreviations: (ISO 15924) Latn
Related terms
Translations
the 26-letter alphabet
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