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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.
Hear the Classical Latin alphabet. There were no lower case letters, I and V could be used as both vowels and consonants, and K, Y and Z were used only for writing words of Greek origin. The letters J, U and W were added to the alphabet at a later stage to write languages other than Latin.
The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.
The modern Latin alphabet is used to write hundreds of different languages. Each language uses a slightly different set of letters, and they are pronounced in various ways. Some languages use the standard 26 letters, some use fewer, and others use more.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Classical Latin alphabet developed by the 3rd century BC. The version shown below was used for monumental inscriptions, and is known as Roman Square Capitals ( capitalis quadrata) or Elegant Capitals ( capitalis elegans ).
In the table below, the most common letters and their corresponding names and sounds, with examples, are listed. Different sources might have slightly different information, owing to the explanation above.
