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  2. Old English Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters ( Æ, Ð ), and two developed from the runic alphabet ( Ƿ, Þ ). The letters Q and Z were ...

  3. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). [4] Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.

  4. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    History of the Latin script. The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known forms of the Old Latin alphabet. The Latin script is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. [1] It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred to simply as "the alphabet" in English.

  5. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet. An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken ...

  6. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    Blackletter developed from Carolingian as an increasingly literate 12th-century Europe required new books in many different subjects. New universities were founded, each producing books for business, law, grammar, history and other pursuits, not solely religious works, for which earlier scripts typically had been used.

  7. Old Italic scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used on the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member is the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet used by more than 100 languages today, including English.

  8. B - Wikipedia

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    B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈbiː / ), plural bees. [1] [2] It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is ...

  9. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon ...

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