The Modern basic Latin alphabet is a Latin-derived alphabet and comprises all 26 letters, plus the alphabet's diacritics: It is codified in ISO/IEC 646 and in the "Basic Latin" range (0000–007F) for the Latin characters in Unicode. The upper case is at 0041-005A, lower at 0061-007A. The letters are also available in ASCII.

Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters)

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

Alphabets that are equivalent:

• Albanian alphabet¹
• Catalan alphabet¹
• Czech alphabet¹
• Dutch alphabet¹
• English alphabet
• Finnish alphabet¹
• French alphabet¹
• German alphabet¹ (German orthography includes ß, ä, ö, and ü, but these are not part of the alphabet)
• Ido alphabet
• Malay alphabet
• Occidental alphabet
• Portuguese alphabet¹ (assuming k, w, and y to be part of the alphabet as is done by the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, which came into effect in January 1, 2009)
• Romanian alphabet¹
• Slovak alphabet¹
• Spanish alphabet¹ (Spanish language uses ñ letter, in the alphabet goes between n and o)
• Swedish alphabet¹

The corresponding languages can still use diacritics, but these are not treated as separate letters in the alphabet. English is unique among major modern European languages in requiring no diacritics for native words (although they are occasionally used by some writers in words such as coöperation, The New Yorker being the usual example^[1]).

1. Means that this alphabet uses diacritics

[edit] See also

• Latin-derived alphabet

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646

[edit] References

1. ^ "site:newyorker.com coöperation - Google Search". http://www.google.com/search?q=site:newyorker.com+coöperation. Retrieved 02 December 2009.