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Latin script

( a script )

Type of script: Alphabet
Script category: Greek script family
Writing-direction: Left to right
Parent script: Etruscan script (show family tree)
Names: Latin script

This is the script you are reading right now, the script used for English, and by far the most widespread script in the world today. The rise of printing and later computing made Latin even more important.

Languages written with this script:

Transliterations/transcriptions

Name Source Type
BS 4280:1969(1983) Arabic script Transliteration
Slovio Cyrillic Transliteration
Wade-Giles Chinese language Transcription
Revised Romanization of Korean Korean Transcription
EAE Amharic script Transcription
ALA-LC Arabic romanization Arabic script Transliteration
Pinyin Chinese language Transcription
ISO 233 Arabic script Transliteration
Harvard-Kyoto Sanskrit Transcription
McCune-Reischauer Korean Transcription
Korean Yale romanization Hankul Transliteration
The Buckwalter transliteration Arabic script Transliteration

More information

Article:    http://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm   
Article:    http://www.sprakrad.no/snytt014.htm#torp   
Article:    http://www.sprakrad.no/snytt021.htm#torp   

Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian.