An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
c. 16th century – present
Languages
English
Related scripts
Parent systems
(Proto-writing)
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Proto-Sinaitic script
Phoenician alphabet
Greek alphabet
Old Italic alphabet
Latin alphabet
English alphabet
Child systems
ISO basic Latin alphabet
Cherokee syllabary
Scots alphabet
Osage alphabet
Saanich writing system
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Latn(215), Latin
Unicode
Unicode alias
Latin
Unicode range
U+0000–U+007E Basic Latin
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use. By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised:
A a
B b
C c
D d
E e
F f
G g
H h
I i
J j
K k
L l
M m
N n
O o
P p
Q q
R r
S s
T t
U u
V v
W w
X x
Y y
Z z
There are 5 vowel letters and 19 consonant letters—as well as Y and W, which may function as either type.
Written English has a large number of digraphs, such as ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ea⟩, ⟨oo⟩, ⟨sh⟩, and ⟨th⟩. Diacritics are generally not used to write native English words, which is unusual among orthographies used to write the languages of Europe.
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