Roman alphabet
A through Z
The Roman alphabet is the writing system used for English and most Western European languages, consisting of the 26 letters from A to Z.
Also called the Latin alphabet, it originated with the ancient Romans and spread through their empire.
Japanese students learn the Roman alphabet alongside their native scripts.
- uncial scriptRounded late-antique letterforms
- lowercaseUncapitalized letter form
- block lettersUnjoined capital writing
- ancient RomeEarly Italian empire city
- majusculeUppercase letter form
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- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- alphabetsLatin, vowels, Hebrew script, uppercase, Arabic script
- writing systemsvowel, consonant, syllable, capital letters, script
- scriptsCyrillic, hieroglyphs, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu
- Latin pronunciationvowels, long vowels, short vowels, diphthongs, consonants
script system type
Roman alphabetChinese characters
Logographic writing system
Cyrillic alphabet · Arabic script · Hebrew alphabet · hieroglyphics · Greek alphabet