Roman alphabet

Noun

Meaning

the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Latin alphabet alphabet roman letters classic character Latin script Roman script roman characters classical writing latin writing euro-latin script transnistrian region western alphabet latin characters european alphabet classical script

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Hypernyms

alphabet bicameral script

Examples

All vowels are short letters, just as they are in the Roman alphabet. Source: Internet

A hand-operated Red analog is also visible In operation, the enciphering machine accepted typewritten input (in the Roman alphabet) and produced ciphertext output, and vice versa when deciphering messages. Source: Internet

And so out of the various vav variants in the Mediterranean world, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached to a sound which its antecedents in Greek and Etruscan did not have. Source: Internet

History of romanization of Chinese before 1949 In 1605, the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci published Xizi Qiji main (Zh) in Beijing. citation This was the first book to use the Roman alphabet to write the Chinese language. Source: Internet

In 1997, the government of Turkey offered to donate western typewriters to the Republic of Azerbaijan in exchange for more zealous and exclusive promotion of the Roman alphabet for the Azerbaijani language; this offer, however, was declined. Source: Internet

It was a 5-bit code, with equal on and off intervals, which allowed telegraph transmission of the Roman alphabet and punctuation and control signals. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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