This is a list of
letters of the
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a 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 Magna Graecia. The Gree ...
. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the
Unicode Standard
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 cha ...
that has a
script property of 'Latin' and the
general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in
Latin script in Unicode.
Basic Latin
Extensions
Letters with diacritics
Ligatures
Multigraphs
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Trigraph
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Tetragraph
A tetragraph, , is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the tetragraph ''tsch'' repre ...
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Pentagraph
A pentagraph (from the , ''pénte'', "five" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters ...
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Hexagraph
A hexagraph (from the , ''héx'', "six" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of six letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. They ...
Other characters
Other Latin characters are omitted from the tables above:
* Subscript
modifier letters a, e, h-p, and r-v, and x: ₐ ₑ ₕ ᵢ ⱼ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₒ ₚ ᵣ ₛ ₜ ᵤ ᵥ ₓ (See
Unicode subscripts and superscripts
Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals. These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in plain text without using a ...
for full list.)
* Superscript
modifier letters A-R, T-W and a-z: ᴬ ᴮ ꟲ ᴰ ᴱ ꟳ ᴳ ᴴ ᴵ ᴶ ᴷ ᴸ ᴹ ᴺ ᴼ ᴾ ꟴ ᴿ ᵀ ᵁ ⱽ ᵂ 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 (See
Unicode subscripts and superscripts
Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals. These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in plain text without using a ...
for full list.)
* Feminine (ª) and masculine (º) ordinal indicators
* Fullwidth forms for typesetting Latin characters in a
CJK environment: Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
* . This is a legacy compatibility character for
ISO/IEC 6937
T.51 / ISO/IEC 6937:2001, ''Information technology — Coded graphic character set for text communication — Latin alphabet'', is a multibyte extension of ASCII, or more precisely ISO/IEC 646-IRV. It was developed in common with ITU-T (then CCI ...
. It is
deprecated
Deprecation is the discouragement of use of something human-made, such as a term, feature, design, or practice. Typically something is deprecated because it is claimed to be inferior compared to other options available.
Something may be deprec ...
, so separate and characters should be used in its place.
See also
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Latin-script multigraph
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Ligature (writing)
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Examples are the characters and used in English and French, in which the letters and are joined for the first ligature a ...
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Latin script in Unicode
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Ligatures in Unicode
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Phonetic symbols in Unicode
Unicode supports several phonetic scripts and notation systems through its existing scripts and the addition of extra Unicode block, blocks with phonetic characters. These phonetic characters are derived from an existing script, usually Latin, Gr ...
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List of Latin letters by shape
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List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. In the list, letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. is alphabetised with , not at the end of the alphabet, as it would be in Danish ...
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:Latin-script ligatures
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:Palaeographic letters
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:Phonetic transcription symbols
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:Letters with diacritics
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:Latin-script letters
Footnotes
Sources
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