Roman alphabet
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The Roman alphabet is the one that is used in this article. It comes from ancient Latin, but many languages are written in it. It has the following standard letters:
Uppercase letters | ||||||||||||
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Lowercase letters | ||||||||||||
a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m |
n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
The Latin alphabet used by the Romans:
Symbol: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | X | Y | Z |
Latin name of letter: | ā | bē | cē | dē | ē | ef | gē | hā | ī | kā | el | em | en | ō | pē | qū | er | es | tē | ū | ex | ī Graeca | zēta |
Latin name (IPA): | [aː] | [beː] | [keː] | [deː] | [eː] | [ɛf] | [geː] | [haː] | [iː] | [kaː] | [ɛl] | [ɛm] | [ɛn] | [oː] | [peː] | [kuː] | [ɛr] | [ɛs] | [teː] | [uː] | [ɛks] | [iː 'graɪka] | ['zeːta] |
Some other languages have different characters based on this alphabet. A few are: á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ä ë ï ö ü ñ â ê ô ạ ẹ ị ọ ụ ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ ả ẻ ỉ ỏ ủ đ. A few languages that use such changed characters are Finnish, Esperanto, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Vietnamese, and Igbo.