What Languages Use Different Alphabets?
Learning the alphabet is as easy as ABC … or AБB, ABΓ, and ႠႡႢ, depending on your language (those examples being from Cyrillic, Greek, and Georgian). English, Spanish, French, and many other languages use the 26-letter Latin alphabet that you likely learned in preschool, along with a handy song. But
there are eight standard alphabet groups worldwide: Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Brahmi, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, and Latin. Most Western languages (English, the Romance languages, Germanic languages) use the Latin alphabet, with one notable exception. The Greek language is considered a Western language, but it’s an outlier in that it has its...
