WebThe Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and the other modern European languages.With modifications, it is also used for other alphabets, such as the Vietnamese …

WebThe International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing down sounds.It was created by the International Phonetic Association in 1886, so that people could write down sounds of languages in a standard way. Linguists, language teachers, and translators use this system to show the pronunciation for words.. Wikipedia also uses the IPA to show …

WebThe lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their …

WebThe Latin script originated in archaic antiquity in the Latium region in central Italy.It is generally held that the Latins, one of many ancient Italic tribes, adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BCE from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy – making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the …

WebThe ISO basic Latin alphabet is an international standard (beginning with ISO/IEC 646) for a Latin-script alphabet that consists of two sets (uppercase and lowercase) of 26 letters, codified in various national and international standards and used widely in international communication.They are the same letters that comprise the current English alphabet.

WebInternational Phonetic Alphabet, also called IPA, is an alphabet used by linguists to accurately represent the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) in human speech. An essential function is to provide a standard for labeling these phones so linguists can discuss any sound without ambiguity. ... The IPA is based on the Latin alphabet in ...

WebUralic Phonetic Alphabet Ꞗ ꞗ B with flourish: Middle Vietnamese Ꞵ ꞵ Beta Voiced bilabial fricative; Gabon Languages Scientific Alphabet ᴄ: Small capital C: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet: Ↄ ↄ Reversed C: Claudian letters Ꭓ ꭓ Chi: Lepsius Standard Alphabet; Teuthonista phonetic transcription system for German dialectology ꭕ Chi ...

WebThe International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, …

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 …

WebInternational Phonetic Alphabet. X-SAMPA (and original SAMPA while not covering all of IPA), is an encoding of a phonetic alphabet, i.e. IPA, using just ASCII. Americanist phonetic notation; Uralic Phonetic Alphabet; Special alphabets. Alphabets may exist in forms other than visible symbols on a surface. Some of these are: Tactile alphabets ...