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By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised: <table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="padding:0.25em; background:lightblue;">English alphabet <div style="font-weight:normal"></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-top:0.4em;padding-bottom:0.4em;"><a href="/wiki/File:Dax_sample.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Dax_sample.png/200px-Dax_sample.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Dax_sample.png 1.5x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="120"></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">An English-language <a href="/wiki/Pangram" title="Pangram">pangram</a> written with the <a href="/wiki/FF_Dax" title="FF Dax">FF Dax</a> Regular typeface</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Script type</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.25em"> <a href="/wiki/Alphabet" title="Alphabet">Alphabet</a> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Time period</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 16th century – present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ddd">Related scripts</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Parent systems</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="padding-top:0.15em;">(<a href="/wiki/Proto-writing" title="Proto-writing">Proto-writing</a>)<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script" title="Proto-Sinaitic script">Proto-Sinaitic script</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" title="Phoenician alphabet">Phoenician alphabet</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek alphabet</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Italic alphabet">Old Italic alphabet</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet</a><ul style="margin-left:0.8em;"><li>English alphabet</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; 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For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="margin-left: 1.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A" title="A">A</a> a</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B" title="B">B</a> b</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C" title="C">C</a> c</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D" title="D">D</a> d</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E" title="E">E</a> e</li> <li><a href="/wiki/F" title="F">F</a> f</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G" title="G">G</a> g</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H" title="H">H</a> h</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I" title="I">I</a> i</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a> j</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K" title="K">K</a> k</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L" title="L">L</a> l</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M" title="M">M</a> m</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N" title="N">N</a> n</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O" title="O">O</a> o</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P" title="P">P</a> p</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Q</a> q</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R" title="R">R</a> r</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S" title="S">S</a> s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T" title="T">T</a> t</li> <li><a href="/wiki/U" title="U">U</a> u</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V" title="V">V</a> v</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W" title="W">W</a> w</li> <li><a href="/wiki/X" title="X">X</a> x</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Y</a> y</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a> z</li></ul> </div> There are 5 vowel letters and 19 consonant letters—as well as Y and W, which may function as either type. Written English has a large number of <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraphs</a>, such as ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ea⟩, ⟨oo⟩, ⟨sh⟩, and ⟨th⟩. <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">Diacritics</a> are generally not used to write native English words, which is unusual among orthographies used to write the <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Europe" title="Languages of Europe">languages of Europe</a>. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Letter_names">1 Letter names</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Etymology">1.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Ampersand">1.2 Ampersand</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Archaic_letters">1.3 Archaic letters</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Diacritics">2 Diacritics</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Loanwords">2.1 Loanwords</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Native_English_words">2.2 Native English words</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Punctuation_marks_within_words">3 Punctuation marks within words</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Apostrophe">3.1 Apostrophe</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Hyphen">3.2 Hyphen</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Frequencies">4 Frequencies</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Phonology">5 Phonology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#History">6 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Old_English">6.1 Old English</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Modern_English">6.2 Modern English</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Ligatures_in_recent_usage">6.3 Ligatures in recent usage</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Proposed_reforms">7 Proposed reforms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#See_also">8 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Notes_and_references">9 Notes and references</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Notes">9.1 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#References">9.2 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Further_reading">9.3 Further reading</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Letter_names">Letter names</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Letter names" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_(from_James_Hoy,_Irish_Spelling-Book).png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png/220px-Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="510" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="738" data-file-height="1710"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 510px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png/220px-Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png" data-width="220" data-height="510" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png/330px-Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png/440px-Chart_of_the_English_alphabet_from_1740_%28from_James_Hoy%2C_Irish_Spelling-Book%29.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>English alphabet from 1740, with some unusual letter names. 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See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> The names of the letters are commonly spelled out in compound words and initialisms (e.g., tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, etc.), derived forms (e.g., exed out,<a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> effing,<a href="#cite_note-2">[b]</a> to eff and blind, aitchless,<a href="#cite_note-3">[c]</a> etc.), and objects named after letters (e.g., <a href="/wiki/En_Dash" class="mw-redirect" title="En Dash">en</a> and <a href="/wiki/Em_dash" class="mw-redirect" title="Em dash">em</a> in printing, and <a href="/wiki/Wye_(rail)" title="Wye (rail)">wye</a> in railroading). The spellings listed below are from the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a>. Plurals of consonant names are formed by adding -s (e.g., bees, efs or effs, ems) or -es in the cases of aitches, esses, exes. Plurals of vowel names also take -es (i.e., aes, ees, ies, oes, ues), but these are rare. For a letter as a letter, the letter itself is most commonly used, generally in capitalised form, in which case the plural just takes -s or -'s (e.g. Cs or c's for cees). <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Letter</th> <th colspan="2">Name</th> <th colspan="4">Name pronunciation </th> <th rowspan="2"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style>Freq. </th></tr> <tr> <th>Modern English<a href="#cite_note-4">[1]</a> </th> <th>Latin </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:IPA for English">Modern English</a> </th> <th>Latin </th> <th>Old French </th> <th>Middle English </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A" title="A">A</a></td> <td>a </td> <td>ā</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈeɪ/</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæ/</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[d]</a> </td> <td>/aː/ </td> <td>/aː/ </td> <td>/aː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.17% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/B" title="B">B</a></td> <td>bee </td> <td>bē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbiː/</a> </td> <td>/beː/ </td> <td>/beː/ </td> <td>/beː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.49% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/C" title="C">C</a></td> <td>cee </td> <td>cē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsiː/</a> </td> <td>/keː/ </td> <td>/tʃeː/ > /tseː/ > /seː/ </td> <td>/seː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.78% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/D" title="D">D</a></td> <td>dee </td> <td>dē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdiː/</a> </td> <td>/deː/ </td> <td>/deː/ </td> <td>/deː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.25% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/E" title="E">E</a></td> <td>e </td> <td>ē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈiː/</a> </td> <td>/eː/ </td> <td>/eː/ </td> <td>/eː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.70% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/F" title="F">F</a></td> <td>ef, eff </td> <td>ef</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛf/</a> </td> <td>/ɛf/ </td> <td>/ɛf/ </td> <td>/ɛf/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.23% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/G" title="G">G</a></td> <td>gee </td> <td>gē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʒiː/</a> </td> <td>/ɡeː/ </td> <td>/dʒeː/ </td> <td>/dʒeː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.02% </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/H" title="H">H</a></td> <td>aitch </td> <td rowspan="2">hā</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈeɪtʃ/</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">/haː/ > /ˈaha/ > /ˈakːa/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ˈaːtʃə/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/aːtʃ/ </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">6.09% </td></tr> <tr> <td>haitch<a href="#cite_note-6">[e]</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈheɪtʃ/</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/I" title="I">I</a></td> <td>i </td> <td>ī</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈaɪ/</a> </td> <td>/iː/ </td> <td>/iː/ </td> <td>/iː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.97% </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a></td> <td>jay </td> <td rowspan="2">–</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʒeɪ/</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">– </td> <td rowspan="2">– </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="#cite_note-7">[f]</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td>jy<a href="#cite_note-8">[g]</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʒaɪ/</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/K" title="K">K</a></td> <td>kay </td> <td>kā</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkeɪ/</a> </td> <td>/kaː/ </td> <td>/kaː/ </td> <td>/kaː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.77% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/L" title="L">L</a></td> <td>el, ell<a href="#cite_note-9">[h]</a> </td> <td>el</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛl/</a> </td> <td>/ɛl/ </td> <td>/ɛl/ </td> <td>/ɛl/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/M" title="M">M</a></td> <td>em </td> <td>em</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛm/</a> </td> <td>/ɛm/ </td> <td>/ɛm/ </td> <td>/ɛm/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.41% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/N" title="N">N</a></td> <td>en </td> <td>en</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛn/</a> </td> <td>/ɛn/ </td> <td>/ɛn/ </td> <td>/ɛn/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.75% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/O" title="O">O</a></td> <td>o </td> <td>ō</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈoʊ/</a> </td> <td>/oː/ </td> <td>/oː/ </td> <td>/oː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.51% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/P" title="P">P</a></td> <td>pee </td> <td>pē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈpiː/</a> </td> <td>/peː/ </td> <td>/peː/ </td> <td>/peː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.93% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Q</a></td> <td>cue, kew, kue, que </td> <td>qū</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkjuː/</a> </td> <td>/kuː/ </td> <td>/kyː/ </td> <td>/kiw/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.10% </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/R" title="R">R</a></td> <td>ar </td> <td rowspan="2">er</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɑːr/</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛr/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛr/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛr/ > /ar/ </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">5.99% </td></tr> <tr> <td>or<a href="#cite_note-10">[i]</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɔːr/</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/S" title="S">S</a></td> <td>ess </td> <td rowspan="2">es</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛs/</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛs/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛs/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛs/ </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">6.33% </td></tr> <tr> <td>es-<a href="#cite_note-11">[j]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/T" title="T">T</a></td> <td>tee </td> <td>tē</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtiː/</a> </td> <td>/teː/ </td> <td>/teː/ </td> <td>/teː/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.06% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/U" title="U">U</a></td> <td>u </td> <td>ū</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈjuː/</a> </td> <td>/uː/ </td> <td>/yː/ </td> <td>/iw/ </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.76% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/V" title="V">V</a></td> <td>vee </td> <td>–</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈviː/</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.98% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/W" title="W">W</a></td> <td>double-u </td> <td>–</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʌbəl.juː/</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[k]</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.36% </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/X" title="X">X</a></td> <td rowspan="2">ex </td> <td>ex</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛks/</a> </td> <td>/ɛks/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/iks/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ɛks/ </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td>ix </td> <td>/ɪks/ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Y</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">wy, wye </td> <td rowspan="2">hȳ </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈwaɪ/</a> </td> <td>/hyː/ </td> <td rowspan="2">ui, gui ? </td> <td rowspan="3">/wiː/ </td> <td rowspan="3" style="text-align:right;">1.97% </td></tr> <tr> <td>/iː/ </td></tr> <tr> <td>ī graeca </td> <td>/iː ˈɡraɪka/ </td> <td>/iː ɡrɛːk/ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a></td> <td>zed<a href="#cite_note-13">[l]</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">zēta</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈzɛd/</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">/ˈzeːta/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/ˈzɛːdə/ </td> <td rowspan="2">/zɛd/ </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">0.07% </td></tr> <tr> <td>zee<a href="#cite_note-14">[m]</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈziː/</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button 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(See <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet#Origins" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet: Origins</a>.) The regular phonological developments (in rough chronological order) are: <ul><li>palatalization before front vowels of Latin /k/ successively to /tʃ/, /ts/, and finally to Middle French /s/. Affects C.</li> <li>palatalization before front vowels of Latin /ɡ/ to Proto-Romance and Middle French /dʒ/. Affects G.</li> <li>fronting of Latin /uː/ to Middle French /yː/, becoming Middle English /iw/ and then Modern English /juː/. Affects Q, U.</li> <li>the inconsistent lowering of Middle English /ɛr/ to /ar/. Affects R.</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift" title="Great Vowel Shift">Great Vowel Shift</a>, shifting all Middle English long vowels. Affects A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, O, P, T, and presumably Y.</li></ul> The novel forms are aitch, a regular development of Medieval Latin acca; jay, a new letter presumably vocalised like neighboring kay to avoid confusion with established gee (the other name, jy, was taken from French); vee, a new letter named by analogy with the majority; double-u, a new letter, self-explanatory (the name of Latin V was ū); wye, of obscure origin but with an antecedent in Old French wi; <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/izzard" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:izzard">izzard</a>, from the Romance phrase i zed or i zeto "and Z" said when reciting the alphabet; and zee, an American levelling of zed by analogy with other consonants. Some groups of letters, such as pee and bee, or em and en, are easily confused in speech, especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link. <a href="/wiki/Spelling_alphabet" title="Spelling alphabet">Spelling alphabets</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/ICAO_spelling_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="ICAO spelling alphabet">ICAO spelling alphabet</a>, used by <a href="/wiki/Aircraft" title="Aircraft">aircraft</a> pilots, police and others, are designed to eliminate this potential confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ampersand">Ampersand</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ampersand" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand</a> (&) has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011.<a href="#cite_note-Evertype-15">[2]</a> & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, as taught to children in the US and elsewhere.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness">vague</a>] An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks.<a href="#cite_note-16">[3]</a> Historically, the figure is a <a href="/wiki/Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">ligature</a> for the letters Et. In English and many other languages, it is used to represent the word and, plus occasionally the Latin word et, as in the abbreviation &c (et cetera). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archaic_letters">Archaic letters</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Archaic letters" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a> had a number of non-Latin letters that have since dropped out of use. Some of these either took the names of the equivalent <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">runes</a>, since there were no Latin names to adopt, or were runes themselves (<a href="/wiki/Thorn_(letter)" title="Thorn (letter)">thorn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wynn" title="Wynn">wyn</a>). <ul><li>Æ æ <a href="/wiki/%C3%86" title="Æ">Ash</a> or æsc <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæʃ/</a>, used for the vowel <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/æ/</a>, which disappeared from the language and then reformed. Replaced by <a href="/wiki/Ae_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ae (digraph)">ae</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[n]</a> and <a href="/wiki/E" title="E">e</a> now.</li> <li>Ð ð <a href="/wiki/Eth" title="Eth">Edh</a>, eð or eth <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛð/</a>, used for the consonants <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ð/</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/θ/</a> (which did not become phonemically distinct until after the letter had fallen out of use). Replaced by <a href="/wiki/Th_(digraph)" title="Th (digraph)">th</a> now.</li> <li>Þ þ <a href="/wiki/Thorn_(letter)" title="Thorn (letter)">Thorn</a> or þorn <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈθɔːrn/</a>, used for the consonants <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ð/</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/θ/</a> (which did not become phonemically distinct until after the letter had fallen out of use). Replaced by <a href="/wiki/Th_(digraph)" title="Th (digraph)">th</a> now.</li> <li>Œ œ <a href="/wiki/%C5%92" title="Œ">Ethel</a>, ēðel, œ̄þel, etc. <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛðəl/</a>, used for the vowel /<a href="/wiki/Open-mid_front_rounded_vowel" title="Open-mid front rounded vowel">œ</a>/, which disappeared from the language quite early. Replaced by <a href="/wiki/Oe_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oe (digraph)">oe</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[o]</a> and <a href="/wiki/E" title="E">e</a> now.</li> <li>Ƿ ƿ <a href="/wiki/Wynn" title="Wynn">Wyn</a>, ƿen (Kentish) or wynn <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈwɪn/</a>, used for the consonant <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/w/</a>. (The letter 'w' had not yet been invented.) Replaced by <a href="/wiki/W" title="W">w</a> now.</li> <li>Ȝ ȝ <a href="/wiki/Yogh" title="Yogh">Yogh</a>, ȝogh or yoch <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈjɒɡ/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈjɒx/</a>, used for various sounds derived from <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɡ/</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/j/</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/x/</a>. Replaced by <a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">y</a>, <a href="/wiki/J" title="J">j</a>,<a href="#cite_note-19">[p]</a> <a href="/wiki/Gh_(digraph)" title="Gh (digraph)">gh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ch_(digraph)" title="Ch (digraph)">ch</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[q]</a> now.</li> <li>ſ <a href="/wiki/Long_s" title="Long s">long s</a>, an earlier form of the <a href="/wiki/Lowercase" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowercase">lowercase</a> "s" that continued to be used alongside the modern lowercase s into the 1800s. Replaced by lowercase <a href="/wiki/S" title="S">s</a> now.</li> <li>ꝛ <a href="/wiki/R_rotunda" title="R rotunda">r rotunda</a>, an alternative form of the lowercase "r".</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Diacritics">Diacritics</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Diacritics" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks" title="English terms with diacritical marks">English terms with diacritical marks</a></div> The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç).<a href="#cite_note-21">[4]</a> Diacritics used for <a href="/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)" title="Tone (linguistics)">tonal languages</a> may be replaced with <a href="/wiki/Tone_number" title="Tone number">tonal numbers</a> or omitted. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Loanwords">Loanwords</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Loanwords" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">Diacritic</a> marks mainly appear in loanwords such as naïve and façade. Informal English writing tends to omit diacritics because of their absence from the keyboard, while professional copywriters and typesetters tend to include them. As such words become naturalised in English, there is a tendency to drop the diacritics, as has happened with many older borrowings from French, such as hôtel. Words that are still perceived as foreign tend to retain them; for example, the only spelling of soupçon found in English dictionaries (the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">OED</a> and others) uses the diacritic. However, diacritics are likely to be retained even in naturalised words where they would otherwise be confused with a common native English word (for example, résumé rather than resume).<a href="#cite_note-22">[5]</a> Rarely, they may even be added to a loanword for this reason (as in maté, from Spanish <a href="/wiki/Yerba_mate" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerba mate">yerba mate</a> but following the pattern of café, from French, to distinguish from mate). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Native_English_words">Native English words</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Native English words" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Occasionally, especially in older writing, diacritics are used to indicate the <a href="/wiki/Syllable" title="Syllable">syllables</a> of a word: cursed (verb) is pronounced with one syllable, while cursèd (<a href="/wiki/Adjective" title="Adjective">adjective</a>) is pronounced with two. For this, è is used widely in poetry, e.g., in Shakespeare's sonnets. <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> used ë, as in O wingëd crown. Similarly, while in chicken coop the letters -oo- represent a single vowel sound (a <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraph</a>), they less often represent two which may be marked with a diaresis as in zoölogist<a href="#cite_note-23">[6]</a> and coöperation. This use of the <a href="/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)" title="Diaeresis (diacritic)">diaeresis</a> is rare but found in some well-known publications, such as <a href="/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review" title="MIT Technology Review">MIT Technology Review</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a>. Some publications, particularly in UK usage, have replaced the diaeresis with a hyphen such as in co-operative.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In general, these devices are not used even where they would serve to alleviate some degree of confusion. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Punctuation_marks_within_words">Punctuation marks within words</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Punctuation marks within words" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Apostrophe">Apostrophe</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Apostrophe" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Apostrophe" title="Apostrophe">apostrophe</a> (ʼ) is not usually considered part of the English alphabet nor used as a diacritic, even in loanwords. But it is used for two important purposes in written English: to mark the "possessive"<a href="#cite_note-24">[r]</a> and to mark <a href="/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)" title="Contraction (grammar)">contracted</a> words. Current standards require its use for both purposes. Therefore, apostrophes are necessary to spell many words even in isolation, unlike most punctuation marks, which are concerned with indicating sentence structure and other relationships among multiple words. <ul><li>It distinguishes (from the otherwise identical regular <a href="/wiki/Plural" title="Plural">plural</a> inflection -s) the English <a href="/wiki/Possessive" title="Possessive">possessive</a> morpheme "'s" (apostrophe alone after a regular plural affix, giving -s' as the standard mark for plural + possessive). Practice settled in the 18th century; before then, practices varied but typically all three endings were written -s (but without cumulation). This meant that only regular nouns bearing neither could be confidently identified, and plural and possessive could be potentially confused (e.g., "the Apostles words"; "those things over there are my husbands"<a href="#cite_note-25">[7]</a>)—which undermines the logic of "<a href="/wiki/Marker_(linguistics)" title="Marker (linguistics)">marked</a>" forms.</li> <li>Many common contractions have near-<a href="/wiki/Homograph" title="Homograph">homographs</a> from which they are distinguished in writing only by an apostrophe, for example it's (it is or it has) as opposed to its, the possessive form of "it", or she'd (she would or she had) as opposed to shed.</li></ul> In a <a href="/wiki/Chronicle_of_Higher_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronicle of Higher Education">Chronicle of Higher Education</a> blog, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Pullum" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoffrey Pullum">Geoffrey Pullum</a> argued that apostrophe is the 27th letter of the alphabet, arguing that it does not function as a form of <a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">punctuation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hyphen">Hyphen</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hyphen" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">Hyphens</a> are often used in English <a href="/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)" title="Compound (linguistics)">compound words</a>. Written compound words may be hyphenated, open or closed, so specifics are guided by <a href="/wiki/Style_guide" title="Style guide">stylistic policy</a>. Some writers may use a <a href="/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)" title="Slash (punctuation)">slash</a> in certain instances. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Frequencies">Frequencies</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Frequencies" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Letter_frequency" title="Letter frequency">Letter frequency</a></div> The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text.<a href="#cite_note-27">[9]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Phonology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/English_phonology" title="English phonology">English phonology</a></div> The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent <a href="/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel">vowels</a>, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively. The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth"). Very rarely, W may represent a vowel (as in "cwm", a <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> loanword). The consonant sounds represented by the letters W and Y in English (/w/ and /j/ as in went /wɛnt/ and yes /jɛs/) are referred to as <a href="/wiki/Semivowel" title="Semivowel">semi-vowels</a> (or glides) by linguists, however this is a description that applies to the sounds represented by the letters and not to the letters themselves. The remaining letters are considered consonant letters, since when not silent they generally represent <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonants</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Latin_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Latin alphabet">History of the Latin alphabet</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English orthography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Old_English">Old English</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Old English" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Old_English_Latin_alphabet" title="Old English Latin alphabet">Old English Latin alphabet</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> itself was initially written in the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" title="Anglo-Saxon runes">Anglo-Saxon futhorc</a> runic alphabet, in use from the 5th century. This alphabet was brought to what is now England, along with the proto-form of the language itself, by <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> settlers. Very few examples of this form of written <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> have survived, mostly as short inscriptions or fragments. The <a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a>, introduced by Christian missionaries, began to replace the Anglo-Saxon futhorc from about the 7th century, although the two continued in parallel for some time. As such, the Old English alphabet began to employ parts of the Roman alphabet in its construction.<a href="#cite_note-28">[10]</a> Futhorc influenced the emerging English alphabet by providing it with the letters <a href="/wiki/Thorn_(letter)" title="Thorn (letter)">thorn</a> (Þ þ) and <a href="/wiki/Wynn" title="Wynn">wynn</a> (Ƿ ƿ). The letter <a href="/wiki/Eth" title="Eth">eth</a> (Ð ð) was later devised as a modification of <a href="/wiki/D" title="D">dee</a> (D d), and finally <a href="/wiki/Yogh" title="Yogh">yogh</a> (Ȝ ȝ) was created by Norman scribes from the <a href="/wiki/Insular_G" title="Insular G">insular g</a> in Old English and <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>, and used alongside their <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_g" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolingian g">Carolingian g</a>. The a-e <a href="/wiki/Ligature_(writing)" title="Ligature (writing)">ligature</a> <a href="/wiki/%C3%86" title="Æ">ash</a> (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune <a href="/wiki/Ansuz_(rune)" title="Ansuz (rune)">æsc</a>. In very early Old English the o-e ligature <a href="/wiki/%C5%92" title="Œ">ethel</a> (Œ œ) also appeared as a distinct letter, likewise named after a rune, <a href="/wiki/Odal_(rune)" class="mw-redirect" title="Odal (rune)">œðel</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Additionally, the v–v or u-u ligature <a href="/wiki/Double-u" class="mw-redirect" title="Double-u">double-u</a> (W w) was in use. In the year 1011, a monk named <a href="/wiki/Byrhtferth" title="Byrhtferth">Byrhtferð</a> recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet.<a href="#cite_note-Evertype-15">[2]</a> He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet first, including the <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand</a>, then 5 additional English letters, starting with the <a href="/wiki/Tironian_notes" title="Tironian notes">Tironian note</a> ond (⁊), an insular symbol for and: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent" style="font-family:monospace">A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_English">Modern English</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Modern English" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In the <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">orthography</a> of <a href="/wiki/Modern_English" title="Modern English">Modern English</a>, the letters <a href="/wiki/Thorn_(letter)" title="Thorn (letter)">thorn</a> (þ), <a href="/wiki/Eth" title="Eth">eth</a> (ð), <a href="/wiki/Wynn" title="Wynn">wynn</a> (ƿ), <a href="/wiki/Yogh" title="Yogh">yogh</a> (ȝ), <a href="/wiki/%C3%86" title="Æ">ash</a> (æ), and <a href="/wiki/Ethel_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethel (letter)">ethel</a> (œ) are obsolete. <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> borrowings reintroduced homographs of æ and œ into <a href="/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English">Middle English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_English" title="Early Modern English">Early Modern English</a>, though they are largely obsolete (see "Ligatures in recent usage" below), and where they are used they are not considered to be separate letters (e.g., for collation purposes), but rather <a href="/wiki/Typographic_ligature" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic ligature">ligatures</a>. Thorn and eth were both replaced by <a href="/wiki/Th_(digraph)" title="Th (digraph)">th</a>, though thorn continued in existence for some time, its lowercase form gradually becoming graphically indistinguishable from the <a href="/wiki/Lower_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower case">minuscule</a> <a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">y</a> in most handwriting. Y for <a href="/wiki/Th_(digraph)" title="Th (digraph)">th</a> can still be seen in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudo-archaisms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pseudo-archaisms (page does not exist)">pseudo-archaisms</a> such as "<a href="/wiki/Ye_Olde" class="mw-redirect" title="Ye Olde">Ye Olde</a> Booke Shoppe". The letters þ and ð are still used in present-day <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_language" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a> (where they now represent two separate sounds, /θ/ and /ð/ having become phonemically-distinct – as indeed also happened in Modern English), while ð is still used in present-day <a href="/wiki/Faroese_language" title="Faroese language">Faroese</a> (although only as a silent letter). Wynn disappeared from English around the 14th century when it was supplanted by uu, which ultimately developed into the modern w. Yogh disappeared around the 15th century and was typically replaced by gh. The letters <a href="/wiki/U" title="U">u</a> and <a href="/wiki/J" title="J">j</a>, as distinct from <a href="/wiki/V" title="V">v</a> and <a href="/wiki/I" title="I">i</a>, were introduced in the 16th century, and w assumed the status of an independent letter. The variant lowercase form <a href="/wiki/Long_s" title="Long s">long s</a> (ſ) lasted into <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_English" title="Early Modern English">early modern English</a>, and was used in non-final position up to the early 19th century. Today, the English alphabet is considered to consist of the following 26 letters: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist" style="margin-left: 1.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A" title="A">A</a> a</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B" title="B">B</a> b</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C" title="C">C</a> c</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D" title="D">D</a> d</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E" title="E">E</a> e</li> <li><a href="/wiki/F" title="F">F</a> f</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G" title="G">G</a> g</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H" title="H">H</a> h</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I" title="I">I</a> i</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a> j</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K" title="K">K</a> k</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L" title="L">L</a> l</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M" title="M">M</a> m</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N" title="N">N</a> n</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O" title="O">O</a> o</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P" title="P">P</a> p</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Q</a> q</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R" title="R">R</a> r</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S" title="S">S</a> s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T" title="T">T</a> t</li> <li><a href="/wiki/U" title="U">U</a> u</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V" title="V">V</a> v</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W" title="W">W</a> w</li> <li><a href="/wiki/X" title="X">X</a> x</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Y</a> y</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a> z</li></ul> </div> Written English has a number of <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraphs</a>,<a href="#cite_note-29">[11]</a> but they are not considered separate letters of the alphabet: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist" style="margin-left: 1.6em;"> <ul><li>ch (usually makes tsh sound)</li> <li>ci (makes s sound)</li> <li>ck (makes k sound)</li> <li>gh (makes f or g sound (also silent))</li> <li>ng (makes a <a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal" title="Voiced velar nasal">voiced velar nasal</a>)</li> <li>ph (makes f sound)</li> <li>qu (makes kw sound)</li> <li>rh (makes r sound)</li> <li>sc (makes s sound (also a blend)[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>])</li> <li>sh (makes ch sound without t)</li> <li>th (makes theta or eth sound)</li> <li>ti (makes sh sound)</li> <li>wh (makes w sound)</li> <li>wr (makes r sound)</li> <li>zh (makes j sound without d)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ligatures_in_recent_usage">Ligatures in recent usage</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Ligatures in recent usage" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg/220px-Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="410"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 188px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg/220px-Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg.png" data-width="220" data-height="188" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg/330px-Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg/440px-Caslon_Pro_Ligatures.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Ligature_(writing)" title="Ligature (writing)">ligatures</a> of <a href="/wiki/Caslon" title="Caslon">Adobe Caslon Pro</a></figcaption></figure> Outside of professional papers on specific subjects that traditionally use ligatures in <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">loanwords</a>, ligatures are seldom used in modern English. The ligatures <a href="/wiki/%C3%86" title="Æ">æ</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C5%92" title="Œ">œ</a> were until the 19th century (slightly later in American English)[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] used in formal writing for certain words of Greek or Latin origin, such as <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopædia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coelom" title="Coelom">cœlom</a>, although such ligatures were not used in either classical Latin or ancient Greek. These are now usually rendered as "ae" and "oe" in all types of writing,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] although in American English, a lone e has mostly supplanted both (for example, encyclopedia for encyclopaedia, and maneuver for manoeuvre). Some <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typefaces</a> used to typeset English texts contain commonly used ligatures, such as for ⟨tt⟩, ⟨fi⟩, ⟨fl⟩, ⟨ffi⟩, and ⟨ffl⟩. These are not independent letters – although in traditional <a href="/wiki/Typesetting" title="Typesetting">typesetting</a>, each of these ligatures would have its own <a href="/wiki/Sort_(typesetting)" title="Sort (typesetting)">sort</a> (type element) for practical reasons – but simply <a href="/wiki/Type_design" title="Type design">type design</a> choices created to optimize the legibility of the text. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Proposed_reforms">Proposed reforms</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Proposed reforms" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> There have been a number of proposals to <a href="/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform#Extending_or_replacing_the_basic_English_alphabet" title="English-language spelling reform">extend or replace the basic English alphabet</a>. These include proposals for the addition of letters to the English alphabet, such as <a href="/wiki/Eng_(letter)" title="Eng (letter)">eng</a> or engma (Ŋ ŋ), used to replace the digraph "<a href="/wiki/Ng_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ng (digraph)">ng</a>" and represent the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal" title="Voiced velar nasal">voiced velar nasal</a> sound with a single letter. <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin%27s_phonetic_alphabet" title="Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet">Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet</a>, based on the Latin alphabet, introduced a number of new letters as part of a wider proposal to reform English orthography. Other proposals have gone further, proposing entirely new scripts for written English to replace the Latin alphabet such as the <a href="/wiki/Deseret_alphabet" title="Deseret alphabet">Deseret alphabet</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Shavian_alphabet" title="Shavian alphabet">Shavian alphabet</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alphabet_song" class="mw-redirect" title="Alphabet song">Alphabet song</a> – Song that teaches an alphabetPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet" title="NATO phonetic alphabet">NATO phonetic alphabet</a> – Letter names for unambiguous communication</li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English orthography</a> – English spelling and punctuating rules</li> <li><a href="/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform" title="English-language spelling reform">English-language spelling reform</a> – Proposed reforms to English spelling to be more phonetic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_manual_alphabet" title="American manual alphabet">American manual alphabet</a> – Manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two-handed_manual_alphabets" title="Two-handed manual alphabets">Two-handed manual alphabets</a> – Part of a deaf sign language</li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Braille" title="English Braille">English Braille</a> – Tactile writing system for English</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Braille" title="American Braille">American Braille</a> – Former braille used for the English language in the United States of America</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Point" title="New York Point">New York Point</a> – Tactile alphabet invented by William Bell Wait</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_respelling_of_the_English_alphabet" title="Chinese respelling of the English alphabet">Chinese respelling of the English alphabet</a> – Chinese pronunciation of the English alphabet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_respelling_of_the_English_alphabet" title="Burmese respelling of the English alphabet">Burmese respelling of the English alphabet</a> – Burmese Transcription</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Base36" title="Base36">Base36</a> – Binary-to-text encoding scheme</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notes and references" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Clicked the 🅇 box to close a tab or app </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> Fucking </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Without the letter H </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> often in <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a>, due to the letter's pronunciation in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> The usual form in <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a> and Australian English </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> The letter J did not occur in Old French or Middle English. The Modern French name is ji /ʒi/, corresponding to Modern English jy (rhyming with i), which in most areas was later replaced with jay (rhyming with kay). </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> in <a href="/wiki/Scottish_English" title="Scottish English">Scottish English</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> In the US, an L-shaped object may be spelled ell. </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> in compounds such as es-hook </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> Especially in American English, the /l/ is often not pronounced in informal speech. (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed). Common colloquial pronunciations are <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʌbəjuː/</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʌbəjə/</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʌbjə/</a> (as in the nickname "Dubya") or just <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʌb/</a>, especially in terms like www. </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> in <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_in_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="English in the Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth English</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> in <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_English" title="Newfoundland English">Newfoundland English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philippine_English" title="Philippine English">Philippine English</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> in British English </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> in British English </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> in words like hallelujah </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> in words like loch in Scottish English </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> Linguistic analyses vary on how best to characterise the English possessive morpheme -'s: a noun case inflectional suffix distinct to possession, a genitive case inflectional suffix equivalent to prepositional periphrastic of X (or rarely for X), an edge inflection that uniquely attaches to a noun phrase's final (rather than head) word, or an enclitic postposition. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3> <a role="button" 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edited on 29 November 2024, at 04:31 </div> </a> <div class="post-content footer-content"> <div id='mw-data-after-content'> <div class="read-more-container"></div> </div> <div id="p-lang"> <h4>Languages</h4> <section> <ul id="p-variants" class="minerva-languages"></ul> <ul class="minerva-languages"><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="أبجدية إنجليزية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أبجدية إنجليزية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabetu_ingl%C3%A9s" title="Alfabetu inglés – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Alfabetu inglés" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A8%D8%A7" title="اینگیلیسجه الیفبا – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اینگیلیسجه الیفبا" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE" title="ইংরেজি বর্ণমালা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ইংরেজি বর্ণমালা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%82" title="Англійскі алфавіт – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Англійскі алфавіт" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8D%D1%82" title="Ангельскі альфабэт – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ангельскі альфабэт" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Английска азбука – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Английска азбука" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabet_angl%C3%A8s" title="Alfabet anglès – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Alfabet anglès" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglick%C3%A1_abeceda" title="Anglická abeceda – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Anglická abeceda" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englisches_Alphabet" title="Englisches Alphabet – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Englisches Alphabet" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglise_t%C3%A4hestik" title="Inglise tähestik – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Inglise tähestik" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_ingl%C3%A9s" title="Alfabeto inglés – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alfabeto inglés" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angla_alfabeto" title="Angla alfabeto – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Angla alfabeto" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="الفبای انگلیسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="الفبای انگلیسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_anglais" title="Alphabet anglais – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alphabet anglais" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbyrlhit_Baarleagh" title="Abbyrlhit Baarleagh – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Abbyrlhit Baarleagh" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%81%EC%96%B4_%EC%95%8C%ED%8C%8C%EB%B2%B3" title="영어 알파벳 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="영어 알파벳" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%A3%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A2%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A2%D5%A5%D5%B6" title="Անգլերենի այբուբեն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Անգլերենի այբուբեն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="अंग्रेज़ी वर्णमाला – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अंग्रेज़ी वर्णमाला" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_inglese" title="Alfabeto inglese – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Alfabeto inglese" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D2%93%D1%8B%D0%BB%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D3%99%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%96" title="Ағылшын әліпбиі – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ағылшын әліпбиі" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angl%C5%B3_kalbos_ab%C4%97c%C4%97l%C4%97" title="Anglų kalbos abėcėlė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Anglų kalbos abėcėlė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angol_%C3%A1b%C3%A9c%C3%A9" title="Angol ábécé – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Angol ábécé" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Англиска азбука – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Англиска азбука" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="अङ्ग्रेजी वर्णमाला – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="अङ्ग्रेजी वर्णमाला" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%83%88" title="英語アルファベット – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="英語アルファベット" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingliz_alifbosi" title="Ingliz alifbosi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Ingliz alifbosi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A3%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE" title="ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਵਰਣਮਾਲਾ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਵਰਣਮਾਲਾ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabet_angielski" title="Alfabet angielski – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Alfabet angielski" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_ingl%C3%AAs" title="Alfabeto inglês – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Alfabeto inglês" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabetul_limbii_engleze" title="Alfabetul limbii engleze – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Alfabetul limbii engleze" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Английский алфавит – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Английский алфавит" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet" title="English alphabet – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="English alphabet" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8E%DB%8C_%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C" title="ئەلفوبێی ئینگلیزی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئەلفوبێی ئینگلیزی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englannin_kielen_aakkoset" title="Englannin kielen aakkoset – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Englannin kielen aakkoset" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81" title="ஆங்கில நெடுங்கணக்கு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஆங்கில நெடுங்கணக்கு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2" title="ఆంగ్ల అక్షరమాల – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ఆంగ్ల అక్షరమాల" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A4%E0%B8%A9" title="ชุดตัวอักษรอังกฤษ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ชุดตัวอักษรอังกฤษ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" 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