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  2. Spread of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script originated in archaic antiquity in the Latium region in central Italy.It is generally held that the Latins, one of many ancient Italic tribes, adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BCE [1] from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy – making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time.

  3. List of Latin names of countries - Wikipedia

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  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Population actively using (in millions) Languages associated with Regions using script de facto Latin Latin Alphabet: 4900+ [2] [note 2] Latin [note 3] and Romance languages (languages that evolved from Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian) Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages) [note 4]

  5. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. File:Latin alphabet world distribution.svg - Wikipedia

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    Fixed with Fiji. Fijian Hindi is an official language, and it is not written in Latin. 12:06, 27 May 2020: 512 × 263 (896 KB) P G-A G: Reverted to version as of 09:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC) -- Latin alphabet is not used officially in Belarus. Past or alternative writing systems are not included in the map: 22:22, 2 April 2020: 512 × 263 (899 ...

  7. Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

  8. List of Latin-script alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.

  9. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The blue areas show the countries where the Latin alphabet is the sole official script or most predominant writing system. By the 18th century, the standard Latin alphabet, cemented by the rise of the printing press , comprised the 26 letters we are familiar with today, albeit in Romance languages the letter w was until the 19th century very rare.