id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9600 Latin alphabet - Wikipedia .html text/html 4592 908 68 This article is about the alphabet used to write the Latin language. Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Old Italic script Latin The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet. Letter shapes have evolved over the centuries, including the development in Medieval Latin of lower-case, forms which did not exist in the Classical period alphabet. Old Roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Latin alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9600.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9600.txt