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 …

In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme, coined in analogy with phoneme, is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write' and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units.The study of graphemes is called graphemics.The concept of graphemes is abstract and similar to the notion in computing …

The 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 alphabet or the table.

Digraph may refer to: . Digraph (orthography), a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound, such as "sh" in English (in Unicode) orthographic ligature, the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as "æ"; Digraph (computing), a group of characters used in computer programming to symbolise one character A directed graph, in graph theory

The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, in southern Italy (Magna Grecia).It was adopted by the Etruscans and subsequently by the Romans.Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ …

This is a list of letters of the Latin script.The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system.The inventory of all letters forms an alphabet.Letters broadly correspond to phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent and exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.. The word letter, borrowed from Old French letre, entered Middle English around 1200 AD, eventually …