Latin

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Latn 215
Type Alphabet
Family Phoenician
Direction LTR
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used Yes
Glyphs 26
Earliest Date 60 BCE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Overview

The original Latin alphabet consisted of 21 letters

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 281-312 Blackwell Publishing