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This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
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.
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.
Egg – O (the letter O loosely resembles the shape of an egg) Elected – IN; Electricity – AC (alternating current), DC (direct current) Eleven – II (II looks similar to 11), or XI (Roman numerals) End of war – VE (Victory in Europe, the end of World War II) Energy – E, J (joule) Engagement - GIG
U with ogonek (majuscule: Ų, minuscule: ų) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the ogonek to the letter U. It is used in Lithuanian , [ 1 ] Chipewyan , Dadibi , Dalecarlian , Gwichʼin , Hän , Iñapari , Kaska , Sierra Otomi , Sekani , Tagish , Tlingit , Tutchone , Winnebago , and Ixtlán Zapotec .
Cited in many texts at the end of a mathematical proof. Example: "At the end of the long proof, the professor exclaimed ' QED! '" q.v. qq.v. quod vide quae vide "which see" Imperative, [1] used after a term or phrase that should be looked up elsewhere in the current document or book. For more than one term or phrase, the plural qq.v. is used ...
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In some other words like mû, the circumflex has no disambiguating value; attempts have been made to abolish it in such words. See Circumflex in French . Û also often appears in words that used to have an "s" after the "u": the French word for August , août , used to be written aoust .