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The Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin, and continued in a slightly altered form today to write Modern Latin. The core 26-letter modern inventory is standardized as the ISO basic Latin alphabet. This slightly expanded inventory resulted from two splits in the Early Modern era: ⟨J⟩
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| Latin alphabet Abecedarium Latinum | |
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| Script type | |
Period | c. 700 BC – present |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Official script | Roman Republic and Roman Empire |
| Languages | Latin |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Child systems | Numerous Latin alphabets; also more divergent derivations such as Osage |
Sister systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Latn (215), Latin |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Latin |
| See Latin script in Unicode | |
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