{"id":76891,"date":"2020-09-05T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=76891"},"modified":"2020-09-05T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:39:28","slug":"latin-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/latin-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan alphabet and was commonly used by the Romans. The Latin alphabet (also called the Roman alphabet) appeared in the 7th century BCE as a result of the adaptation of the Etruscan alphabet to the Latin language. The Etruscans<\/a> borrowed their alphabet from Greek settlers in Italy<\/a>, while the Greek alphabet is derived from the North Semitic alphabet used in Syria and Palestine in the 12th century BCE.<\/p>\n

Formerly, it was commonly believed that Latin letters came directly from Greek, indicating the similarity between the Latin alphabet and the Greek variant used in Cumae<\/em>(southern Italy). In fact, it is unlikely: the names of the letters are apparently<\/a> from Etruscan rather than Greek (“a”, “be”, etc and not “alpha”, “beta” etc.), and moreover the common spelling “f” as “fh” is alien to the Etruscan writing system.<\/p>\n

Initially, it consisted of 21 characters.<\/p>\n

Original set (21 characters) of Latin letters<\/b>:<\/p>\n

A, B, C, D, E, F, Z, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X<\/p>\n

Latin alphabet (23 characters) used in ancient Rome<\/a><\/b>:<\/p>\n

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Y, Z<\/p>\n

The letter Z<\/b>was removed in the 4th century BCE. as redundant (the Latin language does not have this sound) by the censor<\/a> Appius Claudius Caecus<\/a>. The letter G<\/b>, which is a graphical variant of C<\/b>, was inserted in its place. Until then, the letter C <\/b>was used to render both the sound \/ K \/ and the sounds \/ G \/, while since the reform, C<\/b>meant only the sound \/ K \/. This change also reduces the use of the letter Q<\/b>, and K <\/b>is almost completely obsolete.<\/p>\n

After the incorporation into the orbis Romanum<\/em>area of \u200b\u200bthe Greek-speaking population<\/a>, many borrowings from this language appeared in Latin. The letters Y <\/b>and Z <\/b>were added in the 1st century BCE in order to render Greek words exactly, hence the name I graeca<\/em>\u00a0(“Greek I”). Emperor Claudius<\/a> introduced new letters into the alphabet, but after his death, their use was discontinued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan alphabet and was commonly used by the Romans. The Latin alphabet (also called the Roman alphabet) appeared in the 7th century BCE as a result of the adaptation of the Etruscan alphabet to the Latin language. The Etruscans borrowed their alphabet from Greek settlers in Italy, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":76887,"parent":41878,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76891","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76891\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}