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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}twenty-six letters in the alphabet that uses the QWERTY keyboard.
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[[English alphabet|bet]].
The '''Latin script''', also known as the '''Roman script''', is a [[writing system]] based on the letters of the [[classical Latin alphabet]], derived from a form of the [[Greek alphabet]] which was in use in the ancient Greek city of [[Cumae]] in [[Magna Graecia]]. The Greek alphabet was altered by the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]], and subsequently their alphabet was altered by the [[Ancient Romans]]. Several [[Latin-script alphabet]]s exist, which differ in graphemes, collation and phonetic values from the classical Latin alphabet.
The Latin script is the basis of the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]], and the 26 most widespread letters are the letters contained in the [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]], which are the same letters as the [[English alphabet]].
Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any [[writing system]]{{sfn|Haarmann|2004|p=96}} and is the [[List of writing systems by adoption|most widely adopted]] writing system in the world. Latin script is used as the standard method of writing the languages of Western and Central Europe, most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, as well as many languages in other parts of the world.
