Why is z the last letter in the alphabet?

Answer 1

Our alphabet, called the Roman alphabet, was based on the older Greek alphabet.

In Greek, the letter z is the sixth letter. But when the Romans borrowed the Greek letters to form their own alphabet, they didn't need the z, because they didn't have a z sound in their language.

Later, many Greek words came into use in the Latin language. So the Romans brought back the z in order to write Greek words, and put the z at the end of their alphabet.

Answer 2

In the alphabet? Some letter had to be. There's not really any kind of logical order to the alphabet (well, obviously it's in alphabetical order, but WHY that particular order was chosen in the first place is essentially random chance). Most of the time, the order was inherited from earlier alphabets, such as the Greek and Phoenician ones.

In the particular case of Z, though:

The Greeks had a letter -- zeta -- representing a similar sound. It was the sixth letter in their alphabet.

This sound didn't really occur in Latin, so the Romans basically skipped it. Later, when they decided it might be a good idea to have a way of representing the Greek zeta without actually having to write it in Greek, they fairly sensibly tacked it on to the end of the alphabet rather than stuffing it in the middle somewhere.

Answer 3

Yes, but you could repeat it over and over again into infinity (i.e. 27th letter would be A, 28th letter B and so on)..

Answer 4

No. It is not true.

Answer 5

No Z is the last letter of the alphabet.