WebThe Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the …

WebThe alphabet for Modern English is a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an upper- and lower-case form. The word alphabet is a compound of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.The alphabet originated around the 7th century CE to write Old English from Latin script.Since then, letters have been added or removed …

WebThe Ukrainian alphabet (Ukrainian: абе́тка, áзбука or алфа́ві́т, romanized: abetka, azbuka or alfavit) is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine.It is one of several national variations of the Cyrillic script.It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, called ...

WebThe Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet (more specifically, an abjad) known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.The name comes from the Phoenician civilization.. The Phoenician alphabet is also called the Early Linear script (in a Semitic context, not connected to Minoan writing …

WebThe Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East …

WebThe Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.It is also used informally in Israel to write Levantine …

WebPeople Surname. Dee, an alternate spelling of the Welsh surname Day; Dee, a romanization of several Chinese surnames, including: Those listed at Di (surname); Some Hokkien pronunciations of the surname Li (李); Di Renjie (630–700), Duke Wenhui of Liang, a Tang dynasty official; Arthur Dee (1579–1651), a physician and alchemist; Billy Dee, retired …

WebConsonants. The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters.Adaptations of the Arabic script for other languages added and removed some letters, as for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani (in Iran), Malay, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam, all of which have additional letters as shown below.There are no …

WebOct 12, 2022 · Edit: nope, it's xs or x's. Wikipedia says exes in the first paragraph, but that's outdated. Source is from the previous millennium as well. Also interesting: Despite what some people have answered, alphabet letters are one of very few cases where the plural uses an apostrophe. Remember “Mind your p’s and q’s”?