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English Alphabet History
The English alphabet history traces its root back to fifth-century Anglo-Saxon runes and Latin alphabets. The combination of the two evolved into the current 26 letters of the English alphabet.
2,235 Questions
What is the 14th letter of the alphabet?
The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet is the letter omicron, which is very similar to the letter O.
The entire modern Greek alphabet is as follows:
alpha
beta
gamma
delta
epsilon
zeta
eta
theta
iota
kappa
lambda
mu
nu
xi
omicron
pi
rho
sigma
tau
upsilon
phi
chi
psi
omega
What is the longest word in English language with all the letters?
The second and third longest words with A, E, i, O, and U are the artificial words:
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (34 letters)
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIOPHOBIA (35 letters)
The longest word is:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPIC-SILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters, no hyphen)
which is a disease commonly known as silicosis.
One acknowledged very-long word is antidisestablishmentarianism, which sadly has no O or U.
Long words that also have a Y (semi-vowel) are facetiously and abstemiously.
Which letter is the last but one letter in the alphabet?
its z but if one means back its y so there both right
How many letters are in the alphabet does China have?
None.
The Chinese "alphabet" contains words, not letters.
What are the extra letters of the Spanish alphabet?
The Spanish alphabet, also known as the 'abecedario' consists of either 27 or 29 letters, depending on who you ask. This means either there is only one extra letter or three extra letters - not four. There used to be three extra letters for a total of 29; those are:
- ch (ce hache)
- ll (elle)
- ñ (eńe)
However in 2010, the Real Academia Española, the official institution that oversees the Spanish language, dropped 'ch' and 'll' from the abecedario, saying that they are technically digraphs, not letters (sets of two letters representing a single sound). This means that ñ is now, officially, the only 'extra' letter in the alphabet for a total of 27.
Your mileage may vary though - if you are taking a Spanish class, ask your teacher if they prefer to include 'ch' and 'll' in their alphabet.
Which statement is the best description of the Office of Emergency Management?
This agency was created to assist President Roosevelt in distributing information about the war to government agencies.
What sentences use every letter of the alphabet only once?
You are looking for a perfect Pangram sentence and there is none, at least certainly not in the English language. However, if you'd remove the limitation of "only once" there would be:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.OR, alternatively, there is the name of the chemical "titin", which includes every letter of the English language and is at the same time one of the longest existing words.
"As the largest known protein, titin also has the longest IUPAC name. The full chemical name, which starts methionyl... and ends ...isoleucine, contains 189,819 letters and is sometimes stated to be the longest word in the English language, or any language.However, lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than English words."
What is the penultimate letter of the English alphabet?
The British pronounce the last letter "zed", as do most Australians. Much more sensible than "zee" which can be confused with "cee" and other letters.
What is a sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet?
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy gray dog...
What language does the English alphabet com from?
The Latin Alphabet (somewhat erroneously called the Roman Alphabet).
What letter is in every alphabet in the world?
If you count each version of an alphabet as unique (for example, the English version of the Latin alphabet and the Spanish version of the Latin alphabet would be counted separately), then there are more than 100,000 alphabets.
If you are referring only to base alphabets, such as the Latin alphabet, the Cyrillic, Alphabet, etc, and you only include pure alphabets that represent both vowels and consonants, there are about 20. Notable examples are:
- Latin
- Greek
- Cyrillic
- Armenian
- Hangul (Korean)
- Armenian
- Georgian
How many letters does the Cyrillic alphabet have?
Use caution. The following answers are just opinions. In truth, it is not possible to count the words of any language, because there is no universal definition of what a word is. Most languages have between 40,000 and 160,000 words.
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There are about 150,000 words in the Russianlanguage. Many people think there are more but this is due to conjugation of verbs and declension of nouns. These are not different words but merely grammatical changes, not new words.
There are about 1,000,000 words in the Englishlanguage. But we know that about 530,000 of those are names of things that man makes like semiconductor, resistor etc. So there are about 470,000 words that are in an unabridged dictionary.
Interestingly no matter what language we speak only 100 words make up about half of daily speech. The average person uses only about 2,000 words, and that is all it takes to be fluent in any language.
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Philologists have estimated that the language today may contain as many as 350,000 to 500,000 words. [Note: Philologists are not actual scientists. They are hobbyists. Linguists are the actual scientists of language, and most would not agree with this statement.]
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Philologists have estimated that the language today may contain as many as 350,000 to 500,000 words.
What is upper case and lower case?
Upper and lower case is a reference to the way Typesetters store their letters. Capital letters were stored in the Upper drawers and the regular letters in the lower drawers. Hence, if they requested an Upper case "L" it meant they wanted a capital "L".
What did each symbol of the Phoenician alphabet represent?
each symbol of the phoenician alphabet represented a consonant.
How many letters are in the Swahili alphabet?
Swahili is an African language spoken in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and many other countries in Africa. There are two alphabets in use. One is derived from the English or Latin alphabet, the other from the Arabic.
- English: The Swahili alphabet has 24 letters and uses the same alphabet as English. The letter C is unnecessary and is only used with other letters. All letters are used except X and Q.
- Arabic: There are 32 consonants and several diacritics to modify consonants into vowels in use when writing Swahili in Arabic script.
What is a sentence in English that uses all the letters of the alphabet?
1.A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats 2. A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
What is the alphabet for sign language?
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/fingerspelling.htm
This is the best site I've found, because the professor fully explains ASL and makes it easy to learn.
What is the ratio of the numbers vowels to the number of consonants in the English alphabet?
what is the ratio of the numbers vowels to the number of consonants in the english alphabet
How many letters are in the ancient latin alphabet?
How many characters are then in the Roman alphabet? That is a good question. According to sources, the original Roman alphabet had twenty-three letters, and the modern alphabet has twenty-six letters.
What comes first in ABC order the word its or it's?
It's. Because "it's" is short for 'it is', leaving 'it' as a two letter word. "Its" is not an abbreviation but a three letter word that comes after 'it'.
