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aka “the roman alphabet”
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-the classical latin alphabet is a ‘writing system’ originally used by the “ancient romans” to write the “latin language”-
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(the “latin alphabet” evolved from the visually similar “cumaean greek” version of the “greek alphabet”, which was itself descended from the “phoenician abjad”, which in turn was derived from “egyptian hieroglyphics”)
(the ‘etruscans’ who ruled early rome adopted the ‘cumaean greek’ alphabet which was modified over time to become the ‘etruscan alphabet’, which was in turn adopted and further modified by the ‘romans’ to produce the ‘latin’ alphabet)
(during the ‘middle ages’ the ‘latin alphabet was used (sometimes with modifications) for writing romance languages, direct descendants of ‘latin’, as well as ‘celtic’, ‘germanic’, ‘baltic’, and some ‘slavic’ languages)
(with the age of ‘colonialism’ and ‘christian evangelism’, the ‘latin script’ spread beyond ‘europe’, coming into use for writing ‘indigenous american’, ‘australian’, ‘austronesian’, ‘austroasiatic’, and ‘african’ languages)
(more recently, linguists have also tended to prefer the ‘latin script’ or the ‘international phonetic alphabet’ (itself largely based on latin script) when transcribing or creating written standards for ‘non-european languages’, such as the ‘african reference alphabet’)
(the term ‘latin alphabet’ may refer to either the ‘alphabet’ used to write ‘latin’ (as described in this article), or other alphabets based on the ‘latin’ script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical ‘latin alphabet’, such as the ‘english alphabet’)
(these ‘latin alphabets’ may discard letters, like the ‘rotokas alphabet’, or add new letters, like the ‘danish’ and ‘norwegian’ alphabets)
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*”letter shapes” have evolved over the centuries, including the creation for ‘medieval latin’ of ‘lower-case forms’ which did not exist in the “classical period” alphabet*
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