ROMAN ALPHABET

ORIGINS

• It's believed that the Romans adopted writing characters from different cultures such as the Greeks and Etruscans.
• It has constantly changed over the last 2500 years
• The Roman alphabet has 21 of the 26 characters from the Etruscan alphabet
• Even though most of the characters weren't made by Romans, they were the first culture who could put all of them toghether.

IMPACT ON THE ACTUAL WORLD

• Nowdays,27 languages come from Latin and all of them use an alphabet based on it.
• Roman alphabet is considered the most "standardized" alphabet in the world.
• grammarly ,Italian is the most similar actual spoken language to Latin .
• The Romans incorporated minuscules and majuscules .

SPREADING

• As the Latin took it's spreading course along Europe, their alphabet got incorporated by other cultures
• Aproximately, 100 countries speak languages that come from Latin

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