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 ē ef ī el em en ō er es 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.