Roman script
Western writing system
Roman script is the writing system using the Latin alphabet—the A-to-Z letters you're reading now.
It's the most widely used script in the world, employed for English, Spanish, French, German, and hundreds of other languages.
The term distinguishes this alphabet from others like Cyrillic, Arabic, or Chinese characters: The language was traditionally written in Arabic script but switched to Roman script in the 1920s.
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Cross-script phonetic spelling
- PinyinMandarin transliteration system
- diacriticsMarks altering letter pronunciation
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- IPASound notation system
phonetic · grapheme · accent marks · Latinization · umlaut · cedilla · tilde
Treated hide for manuscripts
- quillFeather used for writing
- inkWriting fluid
- vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
- codexAncient bound manuscript
papyrus · scriptorium · uncial · humanist · chancery · copperplate · flourish · nib
Lettering style design
- serifLetter terminal flourish
- sans-serifType without terminal strokes
- fontCharacter style set
- italicSlanted letter style
bold · kerning · ligature · typesetting · glyph · ascender · descender · baseline
Classical Mediterranean language
- CiceroAncient Rome's greatest speaker
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- OvidAncient Roman poet
- CaesarRoman imperial title
Vatican · ecclesiastical · medieval · Renaissance · philology · Latinists · Indo-European · lingua franca
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transliteration
Cross-script phonetic spelling
- PinyinMandarin transliteration system
- diacriticsMarks altering letter pronunciation
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
IPA · phonetic · grapheme · accent marks · Latinization · umlaut · cedilla · tilde
parchment
Treated hide for manuscripts
codex · papyrus · scriptorium · uncial · humanist · chancery · copperplate · flourish · nib · penmanship
typeface
Lettering style design
- serifLetter terminal flourish
- sans-serifType without terminal strokes
- fontCharacter style set
italic · bold · kerning · ligature · typesetting · glyph · ascender · descender · baseline · point size
Latin language
Classical Mediterranean language
Caesar · Vatican · ecclesiastical · medieval · Renaissance · philology · Latinists · Indo-European · lingua franca · antiquity
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- writing historyalphabet, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, writing systems
- writing systemsalphabet, vowel, alphabets, Cyrillic alphabet, consonant
- Kokboroktones, oral literature
- scriptoriascriptorium, copyist, calligrapher, amanuensis, illuminator
Roman scriptArabic script
Semitic consonantal alphabet
Hebrew script · Chinese characters · Greek alphabet · Hangul
Roman scriptChinese characters
Logographic writing system
hanzi · Chinese script · kanji · Egyptian hieroglyphics · cuneiform
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