The Modern basic Latin alphabet is a Latin-derived alphabet and comprises 26 letters. It is codified in ISO/IEC 646 and in the "Basic Latin" range (0000–007F) for the Latin characters in Unicode. The upper case is at 0041-005A, lower at 0061-007A. The letters are also available in ASCII.
| Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |
| Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |
Alphabets that are equivalent:
- Dutch alphabet
- English alphabet
- French alphabet1
- German alphabet1 (German orthography includes ß, ä, ö, and ü, but these are not part of the alphabet)
- Interlingua alphabet
- Ido alphabet
- Interglossa alphabet
- Malay alphabet
- Occidental alphabet
- Portuguese alphabet1 (assuming k, w, and y to be part of the alphabet as is done by the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, which came into effect in January 1, 2009)
The corresponding languages can still use diacritics, but these are not treated as separate letters in the alphabet. English is unique among major modern European languages in requiring no diacritics for native words (although they are occasionally used by some writers in words such as coöperation).
- Means that this alphabet uses diacritics
See also
| The Basic modern Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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