The Latin alphabet comprises the letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except for a couple of letters splitting:(⟨J⟩ from ⟨I⟩ and ⟨U⟩ from ⟨V⟩), an addition (⟨W⟩), and extensions (such as letters with diacritics), it forms the Latin script that is used to write many languages worldwide: in western and central Europe, in Africa, in the Americas, and in Oceania.
Its basic modern 26-letter inventory is standardized as the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
