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== The oldest and longest alphabet is the Egyptian alphabet with 45 letters. The Cambodian alphabet has 74 characters. The International Phonetic Alphabet has more: "As of 2007, there are 107 distinct letters and 56 http://www.answers.com/topic/diacritic and http://www.answers.com/topic/prosody-linguistics in the IPA proper. Occasionally symbols are added, removed, or modified by the International Phonetic Association." http://www.answers.com/topic/international-phonetic-alphabet
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∙ 10y agoMost languages in the world only have 1 alphabet. Rarely, you might find a language that uses 2 alphabets, such as Hindi/Urdu and Serbian/Croatian, but this is usually due to political reasons.
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∙ 7y agoIt seems to be the Khmer alphabet with 41 letters. There are languages with more letters, but Khmer is the largest with each letter representing a single sound.
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∙ 14y agoe has the most words in English
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The language with the most letters is Khmer (Cambodian), with 74 (including some without any current use). According to Guinness Book of World Records, 1995, the Khmer alphabet is the largest alphabet in the world. It consists of 33 consonants, 23 vowels and 12 independent vowels.
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What alphabets have the largest volume in last names?
The vast majority of last names in the world are written with the Latin alphabet, followed by the Cyrillic alphabet.
What alphabet was the model for our alphabet?
We use the Latin alphabet, which was based on the Greek Alphabet, which was inspired by the Hebrew Alphabet.
Why is the English alphabet so similar to the Phoenician alphabet?
It's really not similar at all. The Phoenician alphabet has 22 consonants and no vowels. The only similarity is that the English alphabet is a version of the Latin alphabet which was adapted from the Greek alphabet alphabet which was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet.
What was the alphabet before your alphabet today?
If you are asking what alphabet was used in English prior to the Latin alphabet, the answer is none.
What kind of alphabet do Greeks use?
The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
What is the largest word in English language with all of the letters of the alphabet?
There are no English words that contain all the letters of the alphabet.
What alphabets have the largest volume in last names?
The vast majority of last names in the world are written with the Latin alphabet, followed by the Cyrillic alphabet.
Which are the longest ans shortest alphabets?
The Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters. The world's shortest alphabet, is Rotokas, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 12 letters. Hawaiian is the shortest alphabet for a well-known language, with 13 letters.
Given only one of each letter in the alphabet what are the smallest and largest number you could write down?
smallest: zero largest: five thousand
What is the shortest alphabet in the world?
Being from Australia, I know about a place called Bougainville. It is the largest island in the Solomons, a group of South Pacific islands northeast of Australia. Some of the island natives use an alphabet called 'Rotokas', of only 11 letters, the shortest alphabet on earth.This alphabet includes the same five vowels as our alphabet: a, e, i, o, and u. But there are only six consonants in the Bougainville alphabet: b, g, k, p, r, and t.
Which world language has the largest alphabet?
Chinese has approximately 40000~80000 characters, but in everyday life used only few thousand are used.
What alphabet was the model for our alphabet?
We use the Latin alphabet, which was based on the Greek Alphabet, which was inspired by the Hebrew Alphabet.
What alphabet was Greek alphabet based on?
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
Is the Russian alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet?
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of several characters from the Hebrew alphabet.
What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?
The Phoenician Alphabet
Is the Romanian Alphabet the same as the Roman alphabet?
There is no Roman alphabet. It's called the Latin alphabet, and yes, the Romanian alphabet is a variety of the Latin alphabet, just as English is.
