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Where did the alphabet come from?
Our alphabet came from Latin, which came from the Greek alphabet, which came the ancient alphabet used by Semites. See related link below for more information.
What ancient civilization's writing system was derived from the Etruscans?
The Latin language and its alphabet.
Which civilization created the alphabet?
The alphabet we use today is basically the same as that used by the Romans during the Roman Empire to write latin. It was affected by earlier alphabets sucgh as Greek and Phoenecian.
Which ancient people are credited for the Greek Latin and Hebrew alphabets?
The Hebrews developed the Hebrew alphabet.The Greeks developed the Greek alphabet.The Romans developed the Latin alphabet.
How did the Greek alphabet influence the Latin alphabet?
The modern English Alphabet evolved from Phoenician: through Hellenic; Greek; Roman; Old English; Middle English; Modern English. The letters for the phonemes: F; U; V; W; Y. Came from the Phoenician WAW; their name for the "w" phoneme in modern English. P: Phonecian symbol for the mouth. As in Pandoras Box, the human mouth. C: came from G,gimmel, camel: beast of burden, representing motive force, or causation.The Romans borrowed the Greek alphabet, and used it to create the Latin alphabet.The Latin alphabet is used to write English, as well as hundreds (if not thousands) of other languages, creoles, pidgins, and dialects.
What symbols became the basis of your alphabet today?
The modern alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, which in turn evolved from the Etruscan alphabet. The Latin alphabet was introduced to the Romans around the 7th century BCE and was derived from the Greek alphabet.
What is the difference between the Latin alphabet and the alphabet that you use?
It depends on which alphabet you want to compare to the Latin Alphabet. You would have to specify which alphabet you use.
What language did the Romans bring into Britain?
Latin.
How many letters were are the Latin alphabet?
The Latin alphabet varies in length, according to the language that uses it. If you mean the Latin version of the Latin Alphabet, it has 23 letters.
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.
When was ancient writing first invented in ancient Rome?
The Latin alphabet and Latin writing emerged in the early 7th century BC. The Latin alphabet was an adaptation of a version of the western Greek alphabet used in the Greek city of Cumae, near Naples. The Greeks had two types of alphabet, the western one and an eastern one. The western alphabet was introduced in Italy by Greeks who settled in southern Italy. It was adopted and adapted by all the native peoples of ancient Italy.
What is the writing system of English called?
We use the Latin alphabet, which was derived from the Greek alphabet, which was derived from the Phoenician alphabet that derived from cuneiform which derived from pictographs (hieroglyphs)Latin alphabet for English: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZLatin alphabet for Latin: ABCDEFZHIKLMNOPQRSTVWXGreek alphabet: ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
What is ancient Romes alphabet?
The Latin alphabet.
What alphabet does the latin alphabet come from?
Greek
What is the written alphabet in Switzerland?
latin alphabet
What does the latin alphabet look like?
The Latin alphabet IS the same as the English alphabet, with the exception of a few letters. The Modern Latin Alphabet is exactly the same as the English Alphabet. The Classic Latin alphabet is missing J, U, and W. There were no lower case letters at first, and K, Y and Z used only for writing words of Greek origin. The letters J, U and W were added to the alphabet at a later stage to write languages other than Latin. J is a variant of I, U is a variant of V, and W was introduced as a 'double-v' to make a distinction between the sounds we know as 'v' and 'w' which was unnecessary in Latin.
What do you call the system of writing in Rome?
The ancient Romans used the alphabet we use: the Latin alphabet. Latin was their language. Western languages have adopted and adapted the Latin alphabet.
