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Type of script: | Alphabet |
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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:
Name | Source | Type |
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The Buckwalter transliteration | Arabic script | Transliteration |
BS 4280:1969(1983) | Arabic script | Transliteration |
Harvard-Kyoto | Sanskrit | Transcription |
Slovio | Cyrillic | Transliteration |
ISO 233 | Arabic script | Transliteration |
McCune-Reischauer | Korean | Transcription |
Revised Romanization of Korean | Korean | Transcription |
Korean Yale romanization | Hankul | Transliteration |
ALA-LC Arabic romanization | Arabic script | Transliteration |
EAE | Amharic script | Transcription |
Pinyin | Chinese language | Transcription |
Wade-Giles | Chinese language | Transcription |
Article: | http://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm |
Article: | http://www.sprakrad.no/snytt014.htm#torp |
Article: | http://www.sprakrad.no/snytt021.htm#torp |