The Modern basic Latin alphabet is a Latin-derived alphabet and comprises 26 letters. It is codified in ISO/IEC 646 and in the "Basic Latin" range (0000–007F) for the Latin characters in Unicode. The upper case is at 0041-005A, lower at 0061-007A. The letters are also available in ASCII.
| Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
Alphabets that are equivalent:
- English alphabet
- Interlingua alphabet
- Ido alphabet
- Interglossa alphabet
- Occidental alphabet
- German alphabet
- Dutch alphabet
- French alphabet
- Malay alphabet
- Portuguese alphabet (assuming k, w, and y are considered native letters under the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, which may come into effect in 2009)
The corresponding languages can still use diacritics, but these are not treated as separate letters in the alphabet. English is unique among major modern European languages in using no diacritics for native words.
See also
| The Basic modern Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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Categories: Latin-derived alphabets
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