Latin alphabet

Latin
Latin;
Script type	Alphabet
Time period	c. 700 BC – present
Official script	131 sovereign states; co-official in 12 sovereign states and one supranational organization (see lists at § Usage below)
Languages	Latin; Romance; Germanic some dialects of; Kurdish; Celtic; Baltic; Some Slavic languages; Some Turkic languages; Some Uralic languages; Some Caucasic languages; Some Niger–Congo languages; Some Nilo-Saharan languages; Afroasiatic languages; Austronesian languages; Austroasiatic languages; Some Kra-Dai languages; Some Sino-Tibetan languages; Hmong-Mien languages;
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Old Italic script Latin; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Numerous Latin alphabets; also more divergent derivations such as Osage
Sister systems	Cyrillic; Coptic; Armenian; Georgian; Runic (Futhark);
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Latn (215), Latin
Unicode
Unicode alias	Latin
Unicode range	See Latin characters in Unicode
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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. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it forms the Latin script that is used to write English and other modern European languages. With modifications, it is also used for other alphabets, such as the Vietnamese alphabet. Its modern repertoire is standardised as the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Latin alphabet

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