Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Alphabet Soup: Comparing Alphabets

Not all alphabets contain 26 letters. Here are several comparisons that have like and/or similar characters to the English alphabet(shown above).



The Swedish Alphabet - 28



The Russian Alphabet - 33




The Welsh Alphabet - 28





The Polish Alphabet - 35





The Spanish Alphabet - 30*




*A recent post on Arnold Zwicky's Blog does not list the RR as a letter and states that a recent reform has eliminated the CH and LL as separate letters of the Spanish alphabet.

For image credits click on individual alphabets.

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2 comments:

  1. DanielaFebruary 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM

    An example of the traditional Italian alphabet, 21 letters only: http://www.tarantiamo.com/2010/04/alfabeto-italiano.html
    (nowadays Italian kids learn the same alphabet as American kids, but most people over 35 like me wouldn't really know the proper order of J, K, W, X and Y - I had to check it just now!!).

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  2. Laura PayneFebruary 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    Daniela - Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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