Alphabets derived from the Latin

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Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the writing systems of many languages throughout the world. The tables below summarize and compare several of those alphabets.

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[edit] Basic Latin alphabet

The Afrikaans, Catalan [6], Danish [9], Dutch [10], English [36], Filipino [11], Finnish [11], French [12], German [13], Interlingua, Kurdish, Malay, Norwegian [9], Slovak [24], Spanish [25], Swedish, Võro and Zulu alphabets officially contain all 26 letters at least. But not all are used in the vernacular, aside from foreign names and rare unassimilated loanwords.

Usage of basic Latin letters[1] (A–Z) in various languages
Alphabet A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Latin [2] ABCDEFGHI KLMNOPQRST V XYZ
Afrikaans AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUVW Y
Albanian [3] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV XYZ
Anglo-Saxon ABCDEF HI LMNOP RSTU XY
Azeri ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV XYZ
Basque [4] AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTU X Z
Belarusian [5] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV YZ
Celtic British ABCDEFGHI KLMNOPQRST V XYZ
Corsican [31] ABCDEFGHIJ LMNOPQRSTUV Z
Crimean Tatar ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV YZ
Croatian [7] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Czech [8] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV XYZ
Dalecarlian AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUVWXY
Danish ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Y
Esperanto ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Estonian AB DE GHIJKLMNOP RSTUV
Faroese AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Y
Finnish A E HIJKLMNOP RSTUV Y
Friulian ABCDEFGHIJ LMNOP RSTUV Z
Galician [33] ABCDEFGHI LMNOPQRSTUV X Z
German ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUVW Z
Greenlandic A EFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV
Guaraní [14] A E GHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Y
Hausa [30] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO RSTU W YZ
Hungarian [15] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Icelandic AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV XY
Irish [16] ABCDEFGHI LMNOP RSTU
Italian [17] ABCDEFGHI LMNOPQRSTUV Z
Kashubian ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTU W YZ
Latvian [18] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Lithuanian [19] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV YZ
Malagasy AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RST V YZ
Maltese [20] AB DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX Z
Māori [34] A E GHI K MNOP R TU W
Mohawk [35] A E HI K NO RST W Y
Northern Sami ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Norwegian AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Y
Pinyin [32] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU WXYZ
Polish [22] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTU W YZ
Portuguese [23] ABCDEFGHIJ LMNOPQRSTUV X Z
Romani [29] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV X Z
Romanian ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV X Z
Scots Gaelic ABCDEFGHI LMNOP RSTU
Serbian [7] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Sicilian ABCDEFGHIJ LMNOPQRSTUV Z
Slovenian ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV Z
Somali ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO QRSTU WXY
Sorbian ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTU W YZ
Swedish ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV XY
Tetum AB DEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV X Z
Tongan A EFGHI KLMNOP STUV
Turkish ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV YZ
Vietnamese [26] ABCDE GHI KLMNOPQRSTUV XY
Volapük ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV XYZ
Walloon [27] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUVWXYZ
Welsh [28] ABCDEFGHI LMNOP RSTU W Y
Wolof ABCDEFG IJKLMNOPQRSTU WXY

This list contains all letters used in the respective language for native words, and well established loan words. Letters used only for foreign or non-naturalized words and their derivatives (such as newtoniano in Italian and Portuguese), or only in international symbols and names or for personal names are not included.

In this list of 52 languages, the six letters used for all are A, E, I, N, O and T. The number of languages in which less used letters are in the alphabet (also for this list) is:

Letter H M R S G L P U B D F K J C V Z Y X Q W
Number of languages5151515150504949474747424139383627211614

[edit] Extended Latin alphabet

Some languages have extended the Latin alphabet with ligatures, modified letters, or digraphs. These symbols are listed below. The characters in the following tables may not all render, depending on operating system and browser version and the presence or absence of Unicode fonts.

For the order in which the characters are sorted in each alphabet, see Collating sequence.

[edit] Letters based on A-G

Derived Latin letters in various languages (A–G)
Alphabet Á À Â Ä Ǎ Ă Ā Ã Å Ą Æ Ǣ Ɓ Ć Ċ Ĉ Č Ç Ď Đ Ɗ Ð É È Ė Ê Ë Ě Ĕ Ē Ę Ə Ġ Ĝ Ğ Ģ
áàâäǎăāãåąæǣɓćċĉčçďđɗðéèėêëěĕēęəġĝğģ
Latin [2] ĂĀ Æ ĔĒ
Afrikaans ÁÀÂÄ ÉÈ ÊË
Albanian [3] Ç Ë
Alemannic ÁÀÂÄ Å ÉÈ Ê
Austro-Bavarian ÁÀÂÄ Å ÉÈ Ê
Anglo-Saxon Á ÆǢ ÐÉ
Azeri Ç Ə Ğ
Basque [4]
Belarusian [5] Ć Č
Catalan [6] À Ç ÉÈ
Celtic British ĂĀ Æ ĔĒ
Corsican [31] À È
Crimean Tatar Â Ç Ğ
Croatian [7] Ć Č Đ
Czech [8] Á Č Ď É Ě
Dalecarlian Ä ÅĄ Ð Ę
Danish [9] Å Æ
Dutch [10] ÁÀÂÄ ÉÈ ÊË
English [36] À Ç ÉÈ
Esperanto Ĉ Ĝ
Estonian Ä
Faroese Á Æ Ð
Filipino [11]
Finnish Ä
French [12] ÀÂ Æ Ç ÉÈ ÊË
Friulian ÀÂ Ç È Ê
Galician [33] Á É
German [13] Ä
Greenlandic Å Æ
Guaraní [14] Á Ã É
Hausa [30] Ɓ Ɗ
Hungarian [15] Á É
Icelandic Á Æ ÐÉ
Irish [16] Á É
Italian [17] À ÉÈ
Kabyle Č
Kashubian à Ą É Ë
Kurdish Ç Ê
Latvian [18] Ā Č Ē Ģ
Lithuanian [19] Ą Č Ė Ę
Luxembourgish Ä É Ë
Malagasy
Maltese [20] À Ċ È Ġ
Māori Ā Ē
Mohawk ÁÀ ÉÈ
Norn Á Å Æ ÐÉ
Northern Sami Á Č Đ
Norwegian [9] ÁÀÂ Å Æ ÉÈ Ê
Pinyin [32] ÁÀ Ǎ Ā ÉÈ Ě Ē
Polish [22] Ą Ć Ę
Portuguese [23] ÁÀÂ Ã Ç É Ê
Romani [29] Č
Romanian  Ă
Scots Gaelic À È
Serbian [7] Ć Č Đ
Sicilian ÀÂ È Ê
Slovak [24] Á Ä Č Ď É
Slovenian Č
Sorbian Ć Č Ě
Spanish [25] Á É
Swedish [21] Á Ä Å ÉÈ
Tetum Á É
Tongan Á Ā É Ē
Turkish Â Ç Ğ
Vietnamese [26] ÁÀÂ Ă Ã Đ ÉÈ Ê
Volapük Ä
Võro Ä
Walloon [27] Â Å Ç ÉÈ Ê
Welsh [28] ÁÀÂÄ ÉÈ ÊË
Wolof É Ë

[edit] Letters based on H-P

Derived Latin letters in various languages (H–P)
Alphabet Ĥ Ħ I Í Ì İ Î Ï Ǐ Ĭ Ī Ĩ Į IJ Ĵ Ķ Ƙ Ļ Ł Ń Ň Ñ Ņ Ŋ Ó Ò Ô Ö Ǒ Ŏ Ō Õ Ő Ø Ơ Œ
ĥħıíìiîïǐĭīĩįijĵķƙļłńňñņŋóòôöǒŏōõőøơœ
Latin [2] ĬĪ ŎŌ Œ
Afrikaans ÍÌ ÎÏ ÓÒÔÖ
Albanian [3]
Alemannic ÍÌ Î ÓÒÔÖ
Austro-Bavarian ÍÌ Î ÓÒÔÖ
Anglo-Saxon Í Ó
Azeri ı İ Ö
Basque [4] Ñ
Belarusian [5] ŁŃ
Catalan [6] Í Ï ÓÒ
Celtic British ĬĪ ŎŌ Œ
Corsican [31] Ì
Crimean Tatar İ Ñ Ö
Croatian [7]
Czech [8] Í Ň Ó
Danish [9] Ø
Dalecarlian Į Ö
Dutch [10] ÍÌ ÎÏ IJ ÓÒÔÖ
English [36] Ï
Esperanto Ĥ Ĵ
Estonian Ö Õ
Faroese Í Ó Ø
Filipino [11] Ñ
Finnish Ö
French [12] ÎÏ Ô Œ
Friulian Ì Î ÒÔ
Galician [33] Í Ñ Ó
German [13] Ö
Greenlandic Ø
Guaraní [14] Í Ĩ Ñ Ó Õ
Hausa [30] Ƙ
Hungarian [15] Í Ó Ö Ő
Icelandic Í Ó Ö
Irish [16] Í Ó
Italian [17] Ì Î Ò
Kabyle
Kashubian ŁŃ ÓÒÔ
Kurdish Î
Latvian [18] Ī Ķ Ļ Ņ
Lithuanian [19] Į
Malagasy Ô
Maltese [20] Ħ Ì Ò
Māori Ī Ō
Mohawk ÍÌ ÓÒ
Norn Í Ó Ø
Northern Sami Ŋ
Norwegian [9] ÍÌ Î ÓÒÔ Ø
Pinyin [32] ÍÌ Ǐ Ī ÓÒ Ǒ Ō
Polish [22] ŁŃ Ó
Portuguese [23] Í Ó Ô Õ
Romani [29]
Romanian Î
Scots Gaelic Ì Ò
Serbian [7]
Sicilian Ì Î ÒÔ
Slovak [24] Í Ň Ó Ô
Slovenian
Sorbian ŁŃ Ó
Spanish [25] Í Ñ Ó
Swedish [21] Ö
Tetum Í Ñ Ó
Tongan Í Ī Ó Ō
Turkish ı İÎ Ö
Vietnamese [26] ÍÌ Ĩ ÓÒÔ Õ Ơ
Volapük Ö
Võro Ö Õ
Walloon [27] Î Ô
Welsh [28] ÍÌ ÎÏ ÓÒÔÖ
Wolof Ñ Ó

[edit] Letters based on Q-Z

Derived Latin letters in various languages (Q–Z)
Alphabet Ŕ Ř Ś Ŝ Š Ş Ť Ţ Þ Ŧ Ú Ù Û Ü Ǔ Ŭ Ū Ũ Ů Ų Ű Ư Ẃ Ẁ Ŵ Ẅ Ƿ Ý Ỳ Ŷ Ÿ Ȳ Ỹ Ƴ Ź Ż Ž
ŕřśŝšşßťţþŧúùûüǔŭūũůųűưẃẁŵẅƿýỳŷÿȳỹƴźżž
Latin [2] ŬŪ
Afrikaans ÚÙÛÜ ÝỲŶŸ
Albanian [3]
Alemannic ÚÙÛÜ
Austro-Bavarian ÚÙÛÜ
Anglo-Saxon Þ Ú ǷÝ Ȳ
Azeri Ş Ü
Basque [4]
Belarusian [5] Ś Š Ŭ Ź Ž
Catalan [6] Ú Ü
Celtic British ŬŪ
Corsican [31] Ù
Crimean Tatar Ş Ü
Croatian [7] Š Ž
Czech [8] Ř Š Ť Ú Ů Ý Ž
Danish [9]
Dalecarlian Ų
Dutch [10] ÚÙÛÜ
English [36]
Esperanto Ŝ Ŭ
Estonian Š Ü Ž
Faroese Ú Ý
Filipino [11]
Finnish
French [12] ÙÛÜ Ÿ
Friulian ÙÛ
Galician [33] Ú Ü
German [13] ß Ü
Greenlandic
Guaraní [14] Ú Ű Ý Ỹ
Hausa [30] Ƴ
Hungarian [15] Ú Ü Ű
Icelandic Þ Ú Ý
Irish [16] Ú
Italian [17] Ù
Kabyle Ţ Ż
Kashubian Ù Ż
Kurdish Ş Û
Latvian [18] Š Ū Ž
Lithuanian [19] Š Ū Ų Ž
Luxembourgish [13]
Malagasy
Maltese [20] Ù Ż
Māori Ū
Mohawk
Norn Þ Ú Ý
Northern Sami Š Ŧ Ž
Norwegian [9] ÚÙÛÜ ÝỲŶ
Pinyin [32] ÚÙ ÜǓ Ū
Polish [22] Ś ŹŻ
Portuguese [23] Ú Ü
Romani [29] Š Ž
Romanian Ş Ţ
Scots Gaelic Ù
Serbian [7] Š Ž
Sicilian ÙÛ
Slovak [24] Ŕ Š Ť Ú Ý Ž
Slovenian Š Ž
Sorbian ŔŘŚ Š Ź Ž
Spanish [25] Ú Ü
Swedish Ü
Tetum Ú
Tongan Ú Ū
Turkish Ş ÛÜ
Vietnamese [26] ÚÙ Ũ Ư ÝỲ Ỹ
Volapük Ü
Võro Š Ü Ž
Walloon [27] Û
Welsh [28] ÚÙÛÜ ẂẀŴẄ ÝỲŶŸ
Wolof

[edit] Notes

  • ↑↑↑↑ In classical Latin, the digraphs CH, PH, RH, TH were used in loanwords from Greek, but they were not included in the alphabet. The ligatures Æ, Œ and W, as well as lowercase letters, were added to the alphabet only in Middle Ages. The letters J and U were used as typographical variants of I and V, respectively, roughly until the Enlightenment.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Albanian also has the digraphs dh, gj, ll, nj, rr, sh, th, xh, zh.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Basque has the digraphs: dd, rr, ts, tt, tx, tz.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Belarusian also has the digraphs: ch, dz, dź, dž.
  • ↑↑↑ Catalan also has the digraphs: ll, ny, l·l, rr, ss, dz, tz, ig, ix, gu, (gü), qu, (qü), nc.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Corsican has the trigraphs: chj, ghj.
  • ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ Croatian also has the digraphs: dž, lj, nj. It can also be written with four tone markers above on top of the vowels. Note that Croatian Latin is the same as Serbian Latin and they both map 1:1 to Serbian Cyrillic, where digraphs map to Cyrillic letters џ, љ and њ, respectively.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Czech also has the digraph: ch.
  • ↑↑↑↑↑↑ The Norwegian alphabet is currently identical with the Danish alphabet. C is part of both alphabets and is used in Danish, but not in Norwegian. Norwegian and Danish uses é in "én" and more uses, although é is considered a diacritic mark, while å, æ and ø are letters. Q, w, z are not used except for names and some foreign words.
  • ↑↑↑ The status of ij as a letter in Dutch is disputed.
  • ↑↑↑ English uses extended Latin alphabets only in loan words.
  • ↑↑↑ Filipino also uses the digraph ng.
  • ↑↑↑ In standard French, uppercase diacritics are never obligatory, but always the good style. Many pairs or triplets are read as digraphs or trigraphs depending on context, but are not treated as such lexicographically: consonnants ph, (ng), th, gu/gü, qu, ce, ch/(sh/sch), rh; vocal vowels (ee), ai/ay, ei/ey, eu, au/eau, ou; nasal vowels ain/aim, in/im/ein, un/um/eun, an/am, en/em, om/on; the half-consonant -(i)ll-; half-consonant and vowel pairs oi, oin/ouin, ien, ion. When rules that govern the French orthography are not observed, they are read as separate letters, or using an approximating phonology of a foreign language for loan words, and there are many exceptions. In addition, most final consonnants are mute (including those consonnants that are part of feminine, plural, and conjugating désinences). Accents on uppercase letters are generally obligatory in Canada.
  • ↑↑↑ German also retains most original letters in French loan words. Swiss German does not use ß any more. The long s (ſ) was in use until the mid-20th century. Sch is usually not treated like a true trigraph, neither are ch and qu digraphs. Q only appears in the sequence qu, y only (and x almost only) in loan words.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Galician. The standard of 1982 set also the digraphs gu, qu (both always before e and i), ch, ll, nh and rr. In addition, the standard of 2003 added the grapheme ao as an alternative writing of ó. However not marked (or forgotten) in the list of diacritics, they are used to represent the same sound, so the sequence ao should be considered as a diacritic. Note also that nh represents a velar nasal (not a palatal as in Portuguese) and is restricted only to three feminine words, being either demonstrative or pronoun: unha ('a' and 'one'), algunha ('some') and ningunha ('not one'). The Galician reintegracionismo movement uses it as in Portuguese.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Guaraní also uses tilde over e, i, y, and g (the last one not available precomposed in Unicode), as well as digraphs ch, mb, nd, ng, nt, rr and the glottal stop ' .
  • ↑↑↑↑ Hausa has the digraphs: sh, ts.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Hungarian also has the digraphs: cs, dz, gy, ly, ny, sz, ty, zs; and the trigraph: dzs.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Irish formerly used the dot diacritic in ḃ, ċ, ḋ, ḟ, ġ, ṁ, ṗ, ṡ, ṫ. These have been replaced by the digraphs: bh, ch, dh, fh, gh, mh, ph, sh, th except for in formal instances.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Italian also has the digraphs: ch, gh, gn, gl, sc. J, K, W, X, Y are used for foreign names, but also for native words derived from Latin and Greek.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Latvian also has the digraphs: dz, dž, ie, as well as the triphthongal letter o. Dz and dž are occasionally considered separate letters of the alphabet in more archaic examples (which have been published as recently as the 1950s,) however modern alphabets and teachings discourage this due to an ongoing effort to set decisive rules for Latvian (and eliminate barbaric words accumulated during the Soviet occupation.) The digraph "ie" is never considered a separate letter. The Latvian o is also the only single-letter triphthong in any language—in one letter it has the three vowel sounds u, o, and a, which combine into uoa.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Lithuanian also has the digraphs: ch, dz, dž, ie, uo. However, these are not considered separate letters of the alphabet.
  • ↑ Māori uses g only in ng digraph. Wh is also a digraph.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Maltese also has the digraphs: ie, għ.
  • ↑ Some Mohawk speakers use orthographic i in place of the consonant y. The glottal stop is indicated with an apostrophe ’ and long vowels are written with a colon :.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Pinyin has four tone markers that can go on top of the any of the six vowels (a, e, i, o, u, ü); e.g.: macron (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ǖ), acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú, ǘ), caron (ǎ, ě, ǐ, ǒ, ǔ, ǚ), grave accent (à, è, ì, ò, ù, ǜ). It also uses the digraphs: ch, sh, zh.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Polish also has the digraphs: ch, cz, dz, dż, dź, sz, rz.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Portuguese also uses the digraphs ch, lh, nh, ou, rr, ss. The trema on ü is currently only used in Brazilian Portuguese. Neither the digraphs nor accented letters are considered part of the alphabet.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Romani has the digraphs: čh, dž, kh, ph, th.
  • ↑↑↑ Slovak also has the digraphs: dz, dž, ch and unique letters Ľ/ľ, Ĺ/ĺ.
  • ↑↑↑ Spanish uses several digraphs to represented single sounds: ch, gu (preceding e or i), ll, qu, rr; of these, the digraphs ch and ll were traditionally considered individual letters with their own name (che, elle) and place in the alphabet (after c and l, respectively), but in order to facilitate international compatibility the Royal Spanish Academy decided to cease this practice in 1994 and all digraphs are now collated as combinations of two separate characters. The c-cedilla ç used earlier has been replaced completely by z.
  • ↑ Swedish uses é for well integrated loan words like idé and armé, although é is considered a modified e, while å, ä, ö are letters. á and à are rarely used words. Q, w, ü, è are used for names only, but exist in Swedish names. For foreign names è, ë, ñ and more are sometimes used, but usually not. Swedish has many digraphs and some trigraphs. dj, lj, rs, rl, sj, sk, si, ti, sch, skj, stj and others are usually pronounced as one sound.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Vietnamese has five tone markers that can go on top (or below) any of the 12 vowels (a, ă, â, e, ê, i, o, ô, ơ, u, ư, y); e.g.: grave accent (à, ằ, ầ, è, ề, ì, ò, ồ, ờ, ù, ừ, ỳ), hook above (ả, ẳ, ẩ, ẻ, ể, ỉ, ỏ, ổ, ở, ủ, ử, ỷ), tilde (ã, ẵ, ẫ, ẽ, ễ, ĩ, õ, ỗ, ỡ, ũ, ữ, ỹ), acute accent (á, ắ, ấ, é, ế, í, ó, ố, ớ, ú, ứ, ý), and dot below (ạ, ặ, ậ, ẹ, ệ, ị, ọ, ộ, ợ, ụ, ự, ỵ). It also uses the digraphs and trigraphs: ch, gi, kh, ng, ngh, nh, ph, th, tr, but they are no longer considered letters.
  • ↑↑↑↑ Walloon has the digraphs and trigraphs: ae, ch, dj, ea, jh, oe, oen, oi, sch, sh, tch, xh; the letter x is only used in xh digraph, the letter j is almost only used in dj and jh digraphs
  • ↑↑↑↑ Welsh has the digraphs ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh, th. It also occasionally uses circumflexes, diaereses, acute accents and grave accents on its seven vowels (a, e, i, o, u, w, y), but accented characters are not regarded as separate letters of the alphabet.

[edit] Other alphabets based on the Latin alphabet

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ As defined in ISO/IEC 646 based on ASCII which was based on the 26 letters of the English alphabet and previous telecommunication standards, and used in later ISO standards, see Latin characters in Unicode.

[edit] See also

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

[edit] Further reading

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