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Which languages use the Latin alphabet?
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January 14, 2011 6:23AM
There are over 6000 Languages in the world, and the majority of them use the Latin-based alphabet. Here is a partial list:
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Asturian
- Azeri
- Basque
- Boholano
- Breton
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Fula (Pulaar)
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- Galician
- German
- Gikuyu
- Guaraní
- Hausa (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
- Hawai'ian
- Hungarian (used runic writing system prior to AD 1000)
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Igbo
- Ilocano
- Indonesian
- Interlingua
- Innu-aimun
- Irish
- Italian
- Javanese - Also uses alphabet called "Hanacaraka" in certain areas
- Kikongo
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Latin
- Latvian
- Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
- Leonese
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- Luganda
- Luxembourgish
- Maori
- Malay
- Maltese
- Manx
- Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
- Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
- Navaho or Navajo
- Ndebele
- Norwegian
- Occitan
- Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Romanian (formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet)
- Samoan
- Scots
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali (formerly used the Arabic alphabet and Osmanya script)
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
- Tongan
- Tswana
- Turkish (formerly used the Arabic alphabet)
- Turoyo (new Latin-based script, originally Syriac alphabet)
- Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
- Volapük
- Võro
- Walloon
- Welsh
- Wolof
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
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