Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Roman alphabet adopted from the Greek by way of the Etruscan alphabet, consisting of 23 letters and forming the basis of numerous alphabets around the world, including those of modern western Europe.
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- noun The
26 -letter alphabet consisting of the following letters (presented inmajuscule andminuscule pairs): - noun Any relatively minor variation of the 26-letter Latin alphabet.
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- noun the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the Korean alphabet is not related to the Latin alphabet, or even to the Phoenician, it is phonetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The letter T comes from the Latin alphabet, which was introduced to English-speakers when their territory was a province of the Roman Empire.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The letter T comes from the Latin alphabet, which was introduced to English-speakers when their territory was a province of the Roman Empire.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In 1979, China officially added the Pinyin alphabet, based on the Latin alphabet, to its existing nonalphabetic writing options.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Beckstrom argued the expansion would create a more international internet by allowing top level domains in Chinese, Hindi and other languages that do not use the Latin alphabet.
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In the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an I...
Yellow Blue OH MY GOD NO yuki_onna 2010
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One interesting point to raise before the examples sentences is that it is a Semitic language that is written with the Latin alphabet, a rarity in itself.
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This shows up in the ongoing dispute in Taiwan over transliteration systems from Chinese into the Latin alphabet.
The Real Chiang Kaishek, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The two official languages are Maltese and English, and Maltese is the only Semitic language written with the Latin alphabet.
Cities of sand shunn 2008
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The two official languages are Maltese and English, and Maltese is the only Semitic language written with the Latin alphabet.
Cities of sand shunn 2008
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