The Latin and other Italic peoples adopted the Greek alphabet when the Greeks established colonies (settlements) in southern Italy in the 8th century BC. The arrival of the Greeks had a civilising impact on all the Italic peoples they came in contact with. These peoples realised the usefulness of the Greek alphabet for the development of their written languages. Some different characters were created as adaptation to the phonetics (sounds) of their languages which differed from that of the Greeks.
Archaic Latin, like all Old Italic alphabets in Italy (Etruscan, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Picene, Messapic and Venetic) is thought to have adopted the Cumae alphabet. Cumae was the northernmost Greek settlement in Italy. This alphabet in its turn was a variation of the Western Greek alphabet, one of the three archaic Greek alphabets (the other two were the Cretese and the Ionic). The Western one originated from the island of Euoboea, Boeotia and much of the Peloponnese. These were areas many of the Greek settlers in Italy came from.
It is thought that archaic Latin adopted 21 of the 29 Etruscan letters. The Latin alphabet evolved into what has been called classical Latin alphabet. This adopted two more Greek letters.
There was not a Roman alphabet. There was the Latin alphabet, which was the alphabet of the ancient Romans (they were Latins) and the other Latins. Modern western European languages have adapted and adopted the Latin alphabet. In English the only letters which do not come from the Latin alphabet are J, U and W.
Rome. That's why they are called Romans.
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The Latin alphabet evolved from the Etruscan alphabet, which was used by the ancient Etruscan civilization in what is now modern-day Italy. The Etruscans, in turn, borrowed the alphabet from the Greek alphabet, which had been developed by the ancient Greeks. The Latin alphabet was later adapted and expanded by the Romans and became the basis for many modern alphabets, including English.
The Greek alphabet.
from the greek words alpha and beta, the first 2 letters of the greek alphabet.
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Phi is a letter in the Greek alphabet.
It was and is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Alpha and beta the first 2 letters of the greek alphabet.
The letter "a" is not part of the Greek alphabet.The letter "a" is not part of the Greek alphabet.The letter "a" is not part of the Greek alphabet.The letter "a" is not part of the Greek alphabet.
Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet