The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken...
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Etruscan alphabet (redirect from Etruscan script)
"western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously...
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Old Italic is a Unicode block containing a unified repertoire of several Old Italic scripts used in various parts of Italy starting about 700 BCE, including...
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languages, see Romance studies. Most Italic languages (including Romance) are generally written in Old Italic scripts (or the descendant Latin alphabet and...
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Elder Futhark (redirect from Old Futhark)
Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic variant (Etruscan or Raetic alphabets), or the Latin alphabet...
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ancient script of India, derived from Aramaic. Old Turkic runes (also called Orkhon runes Orkh 175) Old Hungarian runes (Hung 176). Old Italic alphabets...
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Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of the Old Italic scripts. Rhaetic is largely accepted as being closely related to Etruscan...
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History of writing (redirect from Neolithic script)
a number of Italic scripts derived from the western Greeks. Due to the cultural dominance of the Roman state, the other Old Italic scripts have not survived...
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Latin alphabet (redirect from Old Latin alphabet)
other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later...
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Oscan language (redirect from Oscan script)
was originally written in a specific "Oscan alphabet", one of the Old Italic scripts derived from (or cognate with) the Etruscan alphabet. Later inscriptions...
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Italy Italic languages, an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy Italic script, a method of handwriting Italic type...
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Gaulish (category Articles containing Old Irish (to 900)-language text)
tablets. Gaulish was first written in Greek script in southern France and in a variety of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest...
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Gaj's Latin alphabet (redirect from Serbo-Croatian Latin script)
language per the Vienna Literary Agreement. It served as one of the official scripts in the unified South Slavic state of Yugoslavia alongside Vuk's Cyrillic...
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Blackletter (redirect from Old English script)
with the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and...
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Lithuanian orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it...
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lit. 'All of the Sisters of the old City had seen the Birds'. Words from languages natively written with other scripts, such as Arabic or Chinese, are...
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Latvian orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet...
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the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English...
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The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested...
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the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time. The early Latin script was heavily influenced by the then regionally...
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i.e. lowercase italic Cyrillic ⟨т⟩, may look like small-capital italic ⟨T⟩. In Standard Serbian, as well as in Macedonian, some italic and cursive letters...
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ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/ The Eight (novel), an American author Katherine...
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In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as...
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centuries secretary hand was slowly replaced by italic scripts, a semi-cursive group of scripts. Early italic hand, dating from the 15th century, was based...
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in the 1930s for the Turkic languages. It replaced the Yaña imlâ Arabic script-based alphabet in 1928, and was replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1938–1940...
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three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the civilian royal script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for...
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abɛˈtséːda] or slovenska gajica [- ˈɡáːjitsa]) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which...
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Czech orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and...
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before the age of Classical Latin. A member of the Italic languages, it descends from a common Proto-Italic language; Latino-Faliscan is likely a separate...
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