Latin alphabet (Latin letter or Latin)is the basis of writing in many languages of the world, in particular the Romance and Germanic groups. It includes 26 letters, which in different parts of the planet may be called quite differently.
Writing, which was taken as the basisThe Latin alphabet is used in all languages of the Baltic, Celtic, Germanic and Romance groups, as well as in some of the Iranian, Semitic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric and Slavic groups, in the Basque and Albanian languages. Also, this style of writing can be found in the dialects of Indochina, particularly in Vietnam, the Philippines, Africa, Oceania, Australia and North and South America.
Latin alphabet: history and development
This writing is far from suchancient, as many tend to think. Her "grandfather" can be called the Greek (or South Italian) alphabet, on the basis of which the Etruscan alphabet was later founded. And it is from the last approximately in the 7th century BC. and there was a Latin, originally consisting of only 21 letters.
History is changing, and various metamorphoses also occur with the alphabet.
For example, there was a time when the letter "Z" didexcluded, considering it completely unnecessary. “C” originally meant two sounds “k” and “g”, and only in 234 it was decided to create a separate letter “G”. In the first century BC, when a lot of borrowing words from the Greek language appear, a new letter “Y” is introduced and the already forgotten “Z” is restored.
As a result, the usual set of letters for us nowtook shape only in 800 AD. Although it should be noted that there are still disputes regarding “W”: some linguists consider it separate, while others are inclined to believe that this is just a combination of two “V”, so sometimes you can find the alphabet in which 25 letters are given instead of 26.
На сегодняшний день латинский алфавит с Transcription (special signs, symbols that help to correctly reproduce the word in accordance with the rules of reading this language) can be found in any dictionary.
In the next section, I would like to talk about how the letters of the Latin alphabet are correctly pronounced.
Latin alphabet: pronunciation
It is impossible not to dwell on the fact that all sounds likeand in Russian, subdivided into consisting only of voices and consonants, which are also formed with the help of some other important organs of articulation, such as teeth, tongue, palate, or lips.
Latin vowels include:
A / a /, E / e /, I / and /, O / o /, U / y /
Consonants in Latin are:
B / BE /, C / ke /, D / de /, F / eff /, G / GE /, H / ha /, K / ka /, L / el /, M / em /, N / en /, P / PE /, Q / CU /, R / er /, S / es /, T / TE /, X / EX /, Y / Igriega /, Z / Zeta /.
Latin alphabet: its popularity and demand in modern society
At the moment, we can confidently say that there is practically no adult on earth who does not know him.
Best of all, of course, the Latin alphabet is known to schoolchildren and students, as they widely use it, studying, for example, physics, algebra, geometry, chemistry, or foreign languages.
Do you know that the Latin alphabet can rightly be called a source of international communication? Why?
Just without it you can not do. There are two main reasons, I would say:
Во-первых, как я уже упоминала раньше, на основе Latin alphabet is based most of the world's languages, and, as real and artificially created (for example, Ido, Interlingua, Esperanto).
Secondly, there are a number of languages, the mannerwriting which is so complicated that it has to be simplified with the help of the so-called auxiliary letter. By the way, in China and Japan, Latin is studied as such a supporting letter, and is a mandatory subject for study, both in school and in universities.
