Latin script, or Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet and extended forms thereof. It is used as the standard method of writing most Western and Central European languages, as well as many languages from other parts of the world. Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any writing system, and is also the basis of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The 26 most widespread letters are the letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Because of these things, Latin is the most widely adopted writing system in the world.
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... Organization for Standardization (ISO) encapsulated the Latin alphabet in their (ISO/IEC 646) standard ... the ISO, for example ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode Latin), have continued to define the 26 x 2 letters of the English alphabet as the basic Latin alphabet with extensions to handle other ... The ISO basic Latin alphabet v t e Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Related Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography ...
... of the six schools in the region that taught Moldovan language using the Latin script, known as Romanian ... policy, the language is referred to as "Romanian" when it is taught in Latin script and referred to as "Moldovan" when Cyrillic script is used ... Cyrillic script is still used in some parts of Moldova, but only one newspaper (state-owned by Transnistrian authorities) prints a few hundred copies in Cyrillic ...
... On February 1, 1941, Mongolia officially adopted a Latin alphabet ... Many of the Latin letters (f, h, p, v) were even rarely used while q, w and x were completely excluded ... The adoption of the Cyrillic script a short time later, almost simultaneously with most Soviet republics, suggests political reasons ...
... Salar used to be written in Arabic script, they still use it at present ... There are calls to standardize the Arabic based script for Salar ... has refused to do so, rejecting both calls by some Salar for a Latin script, and calls by Salar elders who disliked the Latin script to help standardize the Arabic script, leaving the Salar language without an ...
... closed four of the six schools in the region that taught Moldovan language using the Latin script, known as Romanian ... offer a Moldovan curriculum using a Latin script, they risk being threatened by the regional security service, and seeing their jobs put in jeopardy ... in the Transnistrian city of Rîbniţa to return a confiscated building to the Moldovan Latin-script school located in the city ...
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