Esperanto is written in a Latin-script alphabet of twenty-eight letters, with upper and lower case. This is supplemented by punctuation marks and by various logograms, such as the digits 0–9, currency signs such as $ € ¥ £ ₷, and mathematical symbols.The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, declared a principle of "one letter, one sound", though this general guideline is not …

Latin orthography is the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from Old Latin to the present. ... On the other hand, the short vowel and /n/ were restored, for example, in French enseigne and enfant from insignia and infantem (e is the normal development of Latin short i), ...

Antillean Creole (Antillean French Creole, Kreyol, Kwéyòl, Patois) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of Carib, English, and African languages.. Antillean Creole is related to Haitian Creole but has a number of distinctive features. Antillean Creole is spoken natively, to varying degrees, in Dominica, …

Provençal (/ ˌ p r ɒ v ɒ̃ ˈ s ɑː l /, also UK: /-s æ l /, US: / ˌ p r oʊ-,-v ə n-/; French: provençal [pʁɔvɑ̃sal], locally [pχɔvãⁿˈsalə]; Occitan: provençau or prouvençau [pʀuvenˈsaw]) is a Romance language, either considered as a variety of Occitan or a separate language, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme.Historically, the term Provençal has been ...

French (français or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It ... In 1990, a reform accepted some changes to French orthography. At the time the proposed changes were considered to be suggestions. In 2016, schoolbooks in France began to use the newer recommended spellings, with instruction ...

Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl ai.sjɛ̃]), commonly referred to as simply Creole, or Kreyòl in the Creole language, is a French-based creole language spoken by 10–12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it ...

Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times since 1681.

Norman or Norman French (Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is a Romance language which can be classified as one of the Oïl languages along with French, Picard and Walloon.The name "Norman French" is sometimes used to describe not only the Norman language, but also the administrative languages of Anglo-Norman and Law …

Monégasque (Ligurian: munegàscu; Italian: monegasco; French: monégasque) is the variety of Ligurian spoken in Monaco, where it is considered a national language, even though it is not the official language of the country, which is French.. Monégasque is officially taught in the schools of Monaco, but is the native language of only a handful of people.

The Miꞌkmaq language (/ ˈ m ɪ ɡ m ɑː /), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Miꞌkmaq population is roughly 20,000. The native name of the language is Lnuismk, Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk or Miꞌkmwei (in some dialects). The word Miꞌkmaq is a plural word …

A digraph or digram (from the Ancient Greek: δίς dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.. Some digraphs represent phonemes that cannot be represented …

The langues d'oïl (/ ˈ d ɔɪ (l), d ɔː ˈ iː l /; French: [lɑ̃ɡ d‿ɔjl]) are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest autochthonous relatives historically spoken in the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands.These belong to the larger category of Gallo-Romance languages, which also include the historical languages of east-central ...

Squamish (/ ˈ s k w ɔː m ɪ ʃ /; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific Northwest.It is spoken in the area that is now called southwestern British Columbia, Canada, centred on their reserve communities in Squamish, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver.An archaic historical rendering of the …

The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'script of the National language') is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese.It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585 – 1625).. The Vietnamese alphabet contains 29 letters, including seven letters using four …