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Latin script

The Latin script powers English and most European languages. Browse base ASCII letters plus accented, extended and IPA variants.

The Latin script is the foundation of the writing systems for English, Spanish, and hundreds of other global languages. Derived from the Roman alphabet, it has evolved into a versatile system that includes not only the standard twenty-six letters but also a vast array of modified forms. These include characters with diacritics such as the cedilla and the tilde, which indicate specific phonetic shifts. This collection brings together the essential symbols used for standard prose alongside the specialized extensions used in linguistics to represent precise human speech sounds, such as those found in phonetic transcriptions and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Readers encounter these characters across a wide variety of digital contexts beyond simple text. In scientific and mathematical formulas, Latin letters represent variables and constants, while in computer programming, they form the bedrock of source code. Social media posts frequently utilize extended Latin characters to correctly spell foreign loanwords or to provide accurate transliterations of non-Latin names. Furthermore, specialized symbols from this script appear in religious texts, educational materials for language learning, and within the interfaces of global gaming platforms to support localized communication and clear digital signage.

Unicode blocks in Latin

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