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Latin script

Type(s): Alphabet

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Latin script

Associations (90)

Belongs to
- Greek script family
Derived from
- Etruscan script
Supported by
Transformation to
Used to write
- Akan
- Albanian
- Azeri
- Celtiberian
- Croatian
- Danish
- Eastern Cham
- English
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Iberian
- Ilokano
- Indonese
- Inuit
- Italian
- Jarai
- Kachin
- Kazakh
- Khasi
- Kurdish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Maltese
- Norwegian
- Oromo
- Pangasinan
- Portuguese
- Rumanian
- Santali
- Slovak
- Somali
- Sora
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tatar
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Uighur
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Visayan
- Western Cham
- Zhuang
Writing direction
- Left to right

Subject Identifiers (1)

http://psi.ontopia.net/iso/15924.xtm#latn

Hierarchy (Containment)

Natural scripts

Semitic scripts

Greek script family

Latin script

Hierarchy (Derivation)

Northern Linear

Phoenician script

Greek

Etruscan script

Latin script

Internal Occurrences (1)

Description
- 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.

External Occurrences (3)

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

Object id: 410
Item identifier(s):
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