Roman alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called Roman alphabet, is the alphabet used by the Romans for the Latin language. The Latin alphabet is derived from, and very similar to, the Greek alphabet. With some modifications, it is the alphabet currently used for a great number of languages around the World. It is used by some international languages such as English, Spanish, German, French, as well as all the other Romance languages, all the other Germanic languages, some Slavic languages, Turkish, Albanian, Hungarian, Finnish. Since the 19th century, it is used by a lot of languages of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas which have been codified under a western European influence.

Some characters of the Latin alphabet (C, D, I, L, M, V) are used in the Roman numeral system, though unlike the Greek numeral system, not all the letters are used as numbers.

The classical Latin language used the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Y, and Z. Several other languages have added J, U, W, Ð, Þ, as well as a wide variety of diacritical marks to many of the letters.

The most typical and well-known variant of the Latin alphabet is now the English alphabet which is similar in many other languages, with the following twenty-six letters in the following order: 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.