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For the Latin script originally used by the ancient Romans to write Latin, see Latin alphabet.

Latin
Roman
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
c. 700 BC – present
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LanguagesThe languages of Europe that do not use Cyrillic or Greek; most languages of Africa that do not use Ethiopic or Arabic script; most languages of the Americas; the languages of Oceania, incl. the Malay Archipelago; and a number of languages of Asia such as Vietnamese.

Official script in:

132 sovereign states
  • Latin script Albania
  • Latin script Andorra
  • Latin script Angola
  • Latin script Antigua and Barbuda
  • Latin script Argentina
  • Latin script Australia
  • Latin script Austria
  • Latin script Azerbaijan
  • Latin script Bahamas
  • Latin script Barbados
  • Latin script Belgium
  • Latin script Belize
  • Latin script Benin
  • Latin script Bolivia
  • Latin script Botswana
  • Latin script Brazil
  • Latin script Burkina Faso
  • Latin script Burundi
  • Latin script Cameroon
  • Latin script Canada
  • Latin script Cape Verde
  • Latin script Central African Republic
  • Latin script Chile
  • Latin script Colombia
  • Latin script The Congo
  • Latin script Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Latin script Costa Rica
  • Latin script Cote D'Ivoire
  • Latin script Croatia
  • Latin script Cuba
  • Latin script Czech Republic
  • Latin script Denmark
  • Latin script Dominica
  • Latin script Dominican Republic
  • Latin script East Timor
  • Latin script Ecuador
  • Latin script El Salvador
  • Latin script Equatorial Guinea
  • Latin script Estonia
  • Latin script Eswatini
  • Latin script Fiji
  • Latin script Finland
  • Latin script France
  • Latin script Gabon
  • Latin script Gambia
  • Latin script Ghana
  • Latin script Germany
  • Latin script Grenada
  • Latin script Guatemala
  • Latin script Guinea
  • Latin script Guinea-Bissau
  • Latin script Guyana
  • Latin script Haiti
  • Latin script Honduras
  • Latin script Hungary
  • Latin script Iceland
  • Latin script India
  • Latin script Indonesia
  • Latin script Ireland
  • Latin script Italy
  • Latin script Jamaica
  • Latin script Kenya
  • Latin script Kiribati
  • Latin script Latvia
  • Latin script Lesotho
  • Latin script Liberia
  • Latin script Liechtenstein
  • Latin script Lithuania
  • Latin script Luxembourg
  • Latin script Madagascar
  • Latin script Malawi
  • Latin script Malaysia
  • Latin script Mali
  • Latin script Malta
  • Latin script Marshall Islands
  • Latin script Mauritius
  • Latin script Mexico
  • Latin script Micronesia
  • Latin script Moldova
  • Latin script Monaco
  • Latin script Mozambique
  • Latin script Namibia
  • Latin script Nauru
  • Latin script Netherlands
  • Latin script New Zealand
  • Latin script Nicaragua
  • Latin script Niger
  • Latin script Nigeria
  • Latin script Norway
  • Latin script Palau
  • Latin script Panama
  • Latin script Papua New Guinea
  • Latin script Paraguay
  • Latin script Peru
  • Latin script Philippines
  • Latin script Poland
  • Latin script Portugal
  • Latin script Romania
  • Latin script Rwanda
  • Latin script Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Latin script Saint Lucia
  • Latin script Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Latin script Samoa
  • Latin script San Marino
  • Latin script São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Latin script Senegal
  • Latin script Seychelles
  • Latin script Sierra Leone
  • Latin script Slovakia
  • Latin script Slovenia
  • Latin script Solomon Islands
  • Latin script South Africa
  • Latin script South Sudan
  • Latin script Spain
  • Latin script Suriname
  • Latin script Sweden
  • Latin script  Switzerland
  • Latin script Tanzania
  • Latin script Togo
  • Latin script Tonga
  • Latin script Trinidad and Tobago
  • Latin script Turkey
  • Latin script Turkmenistan
  • Latin script Tuvalu
  • Latin script Uganda
  • Latin script United Kingdom
  • Latin script United States
  • Latin script Uruguay
  • Latin script Uzbekistan
  • Latin script Vanuatu
  • Latin script Vatican City
  • Latin script Venezuela
  • Latin script Vietnam
  • Latin script Zambia
  • Latin script Zimbabwe

Co-official script in:

15 sovereign states
  • Latin script Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Latin script Brunei
  • Latin script Chad
  • Latin script Comoros
  • Latin script Cyprus
  • Latin script Djibouti
  • Latin script Eritrea
  • Latin script India
  • Latin script Kazakhstan
  • Latin script Kosovo
  • Latin script Montenegro
  • Latin script North Macedonia
  • Latin script Pakistan
  • Latin script Serbia
  • Latin script Singapore[a]
  • Latin script Somalia
  • Latin script Sudan
3 international organizations
  • Latin script European Union
  • Latin script ASEAN
  • Latin script United Nations
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Proto-Sinaitic script
    • Phoenician alphabet
      • Greek alphabet
        • Old Italic script
          • Latin
Child systems
  • Fraser alphabet (Lisu)
  • Osage script
  • (partially) several phonetic alphabets, such as IPA, which have been used to write languages with no native script
  • Deseret alphabet
  • (partially) Pollard script (Miao)
  • (partially) Caroline Island script (Woleaian)
  • (indirectly) Cherokee syllabary
  • (indirectly, partially) Yugtun script
Sister systems
  • Glagolitic script
  • Cyrillic script
  • Armenian alphabet
  • Georgian script
  • Coptic alphabet
  • Runes
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Latn (215), ​Latin
Unicode
Unicode alias
Latin
Unicode range
See Latin characters in Unicode
 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.

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, and technically Latin writing system is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, in southern Italy (Magna Graecia). The Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans, and subsequently their alphabet was altered by the Romans. Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ in graphemes, collation and phonetic values from the classical Latin alphabet.

The Latin script is the basis of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and the 26 most widespread letters are the letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet, which are the same letters as the English alphabet.

Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any writing system[1] and is the most widely adopted writing system in the world. Latin script is used as the standard method of writing the languages of Western and Central Europe, most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, as well as many languages in other parts of the world.


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  1. ^ Haarmann 2004, p. 96.

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