Latin alphabet
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- noun
- /ˈlætɪn ˈælfəˌbɛt/
:
alfabeto latino
- And, what's more, isn't it odd that, first of all, the Evenki adopted the Latin alphabet and a mere five years later switched to the Cyrillic?
- uses the Latin alphabet
- adopted the Latin alphabet
Examples
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It took me a year just to learn the Latin alphabet.
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But in the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an "I."
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We can gain some insight into this question by thinking about how certain letters of the Latin alphabet are used in the English language.
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The Republic adopted the Latin alphabet for use in Turkish.
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For instance, he has been critical of adopting the Latin alphabet, which has been a symbol of national independence for many Kazakhs.
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The party first tried in 1951 to establish a standardized language, simplify written characters, and introduce romanized forms based on the Latin alphabet.
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"I would go into the library at the university," he says, "and look for old missionary books that taught Chinese with romanization in which words are represented in the Latin alphabet. I didn't want to be a slave to the characters, which is what happened to most people."
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The authors, their footnote establishes, got that prize account from a former Soviet archive and obviously just transliterated the Cyrillic letters to the Latin alphabet.
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Daniel Vallo, an archaeologist from Bilbao who worked on the Veleia test pits from July to October 2006, says that his crew found one sherd with the Latin alphabet carved into it.
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Learning the Latin alphabet is essential for reading and writing in English.
Synonyms
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The alphabet used to write English and many European languages
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Latin' (the language/people of ancient Rome) with 'alphabet' (a set of written letters): it denotes the alphabet used for Latin or originating with the Romans. This composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Latin alphabet comes from the people called the Latins who lived near Rome long ago. The Romans used the Latins' set of 'letters' and spread them across Europe, so today Latin alphabet means the group of letters used for English and many other languages.