latin alphabet

  • 41Latin — Infobox Language name=Latin nativename= la. Lingua Latina pronunciation=/laˈtiːna/ states=Vatican City speakers= Native: none Second Language Fluent: estimated at 5,000Fact|date=April 2007 Second Language Literate: estimated 25,000Fact|date=April …

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  • 42ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… …

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  • 43Latin spelling and pronunciation — The Roman alphabet, or Latin alphabet, was adapted from the Old Italic alphabet, to represent the phonemes of the Latin language, which had in turn been borrowed from the Greek alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. This article deals… …

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  • 44Alphabet pan-nigérian — L alphabet pan nigérian est un ensemble de caractères latins comprenant des lettres diacritées et des lettres supplémentaires. Il a été conçu pour que l on puisse, en théorie, écrire toutes les langues du Nigeria (plus de 250 selon la méthode de… …

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  • 45Alphabet (disambiguation) — An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters basic written symbols each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. * Alphabets derived from the Latin ** Latin… …

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  • 46Alphabet ougaritique — Ougaritique L alphabet ougaritique Caractéristiques Type Abjad Langue(s) Ougaritique, hourrite …

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  • 47Alphabet —    It seems probable that the Gypsies did not bring any writing system with them when they came to Europe. The alphabet given in Jean Paul Clébert s book The Gypsies is spurious. Publications in Romani in the 20th century have used the Latin or… …

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  • 48Latin — /lat n/, n. 1. an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century B.C., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbr.: L 2. one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical… …

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  • 49Alphabet dactylologique — Un alphabet unimanuel publié dans the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 1886. L’alphabet dactylologique ou alphabet manuel ou encore alphabet digital est l’alphabet de la langue des signes : il y sert à représenter des lettres et non des …

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  • 50Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …

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