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Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the writing systems of many languages throughout the world. The tables below summarize and compare some of the alphabets known to the various contributors. In this article, the word "alphabet" is intentionally broadened to include letters with tone marks and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions found in modern and classical literature, without special regard as to whether the modified letters have their own traditional alphabetic place or are interfiled, or whether the letters are in the sequence in the table or elsewhere. Peculiarities of the particular alphabet in question may be noted in footnotes, in referenced Wikipedia articles, or elsewhere on the Internet.

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Basic Modern Latin alphabet

The Afrikaans, Basque [4], Breton, Catalan [6], Czech [8], Danish [9], Dutch [10], English [36], Estonian, Filipino [11], Finnish, French [12], German [13], Hungarian [15], Interlingua, Kurdish, Modern Latin, Malay, Norwegian [9], Pan-European, Slovak [24], Spanish [25], Swedish, Võro, Xhosa, and Zulu alphabets include all 26 letters at least in their largest version, according to the references cited here.

Reduced usage of basic Modern Latin letters1 (A–Z) in various alphabets:
Alphabet A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Classical Latin [2] A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z
Albanian [3] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z
Anglo-Saxon A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U X Y Z
Arbëresh A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z
Azeri A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z
Belarusian [5] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Y Z
Berber A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Q R S T U W X Y Z
Celtic British A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z
Corsican [31] A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Crimean Tatar A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V Y Z
Croatian [7] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Dalecarlian A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y
Esperanto A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Faroese A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Y
Friulian A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Galician [33] A B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U V X Z
Greenlandic A E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
Guaraní [14] A E G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Y
Hausa [30] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O R S T U W Y Z
Icelandic A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Y
Irish [16] A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U
Italian [17] A B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Karakalpak  A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Kashubian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y Z
Latvian [18] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Lithuanian [19] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Y Z
Malagasy A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V Y Z
Maltese [20] A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z
Māori [34] A E G H I K M N O P R T U W
Mohawk [35] A E H I K N O R S T W Y
Northern Sami A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Pan-Nigerian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
Pinyin [32] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W X Y Z
Polish [22] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y Z
Portuguese [23] A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V X Z
Romani [29] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Z
Romanian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Z
Sardinian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Z
Scots Gaelic A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U
Serbian [7] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Shona A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
Sicilian A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Slovenian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z
Somali A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O Q R S T U W X Y
Sorbian A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y Z
Swahili A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
Tetum A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Z
Tongan A E F G H I K L M N O P S T U V
Turkish A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Y Z
Turkmen A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y Z
Uzbek  A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Vietnamese [26] A B C D E G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y
Volapük A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Y Z
Walloon [27] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z
Welsh [28] A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U W Y
Wolof A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W X Y

The chart above lists a variety of alphabets which do not officially contain all 26 letters of the Modern Latin alphabet. In this list of 55 alphabets, the five letters used by all of them are A, E, I, N, and T. The number of alphabets in the list above using the other basic Modern Latin letters is as follows:

Letter G H M O R S L F P U B D K J C Z V Y X Q W
Number of alphabets 54 54 54 54 54 54 52 51 51 51 50 50 46 43 41 41 40 33 23 21 20

Extended Latin alphabet

Some languages have extended the Latin alphabet with ligatures, modified letters, or digraphs. These symbols are listed below. The characters in the following tables may not all render, depending on which operating system and browser version are used, and the presence or absence of Unicode fonts.

For the order in which the characters are sorted in each alphabet, see Collating sequence.

Letters associated with A-G

Derived & Extended Latin letters in various alphabets (A–G)
Alphabet Á À Â Ä Ǎ Ă Ā Ã Å Ǻ Ą Æ Ǽ Ǣ Ɓ Ć Ċ Ĉ Č Ç Ď Ḍ Đ Ɗ Ð É È Ė Ê Ë Ě Ĕ Ē Ę Ẹ Ǝ Ə Ɛ Ġ Ĝ Ǧ Ğ Ģ Ɣ
á à â ä ǎ ă ā ã å ǻ ą æ ǽ ǣ ɓ ć ċ ĉ č ç ď ḍ đ ɗ ð é è ė ê ë ě ĕ ē ę ẹ ǝ ə ɛ ġ ĝ ǧ ğ ģ ɣ
Latin [2] Ă Ā Æ Ĕ Ē
Afrikaans Á É È Ê Ë
Albanian [3] Ç Ë
Alemannic Á À Â Ä Å É È Ê
Anglo-Saxon Ā Æ Ǣ Ð Ē
Arbëresh Á Ç É Ë
Asturian Á É
Austro-Bavarian Á À Â Ä Å É È Ê
Azeri Ç Ə Ğ
Basque [4]
Belarusian [5] Ć Č
Berber Č Ḍ Ɛ Ǧ Ɣ
Breton Â É Ê
Cantabrian Á É
Catalan [6] À Ç É È
Celtic British Ă Ā Æ Ĕ Ē
Corsican [31] À È
Crimean Tatar Â Ç Ğ
Croatian [7] Ć Č Đ
Czech [8] Á Č Ď É Ě
Dalecarlian Ä Å Ą Ð Ę
Danish [9] Å Æ
Dutch [10] Á À Â Ä É È Ê Ë
English [36] À Â Ä Å Æ Ç É È Ê Ë
Esperanto Ĉ Ĝ
Estonian Ä
Extremeduran
Fala
Faroese Á Æ Ð
Filipino [11]
Finnish Ä Å Æ É
French [12] À Â Æ Ç É È Ê Ë
Friulian À Â Ç È Ê
Galician [33] Á É
German [13] Ä
Greenlandic Å Æ
Guaraní [14] Á Ã É
Hän À Â Ä Ǎ Ą È Ê Ë Ě Ę
Hausa [30] Ɓ Ɗ
Hungarian [15] Á É
Icelandic Á Æ Ð É
Irish [16] Á É
Italian [17] À É È
Karakalpak
Kashubian à Ą É Ë
Kurdish Ç Ê
Latvian [18] Ā Č Ē Ģ
Leonese Á É
Lithuanian [19] Ą Č Ė Ę
Luxembourgish Ä É Ë
Malagasy À Â Ê
Maltese [20] À Ċ È Ġ
Māori Ā Ē
Mirandese É
Mohawk Á À É È
Navajo Á À Ą É È Ę
Norn Á Å Æ Ð É
Northern Sami Á Č Đ
Norwegian [9] Á À Â Å Æ É È Ê
Pan-European Á À Â Ä Ă Ā Ã Å Ǻ Ą Æ Ǽ Ć Ċ Ĉ Č Ç Ď Đ Ð É È Ė Ê Ë Ě Ĕ Ē Ę Ġ Ĝ Ğ Ģ
Pan-Nigerian Ɓ Ɗ Ẹ Ǝ
Piedmontese [37] À É È Ë
Pinyin [32] Á À Ǎ Ā É È Ě Ē
Polish [22] Ą Ć Ę
Portuguese [23] Á À Â Ã Ç É Ê
Romani [29] Č
Romanian  Ă
Sardinian Á À È
Scots Gaelic À È
Serbian [7] Ć Č Đ
Sicilian À Â È Ê
Slovak [24] Á Ä Č Ď É
Slovenian Č
Sorbian Ć Č Ě
Spanish [25] Á É
Swedish [21] Á Ä Å É È
Tetum Á É
Tongan Á Ā É Ē
Turkish Â Ç Ğ
Turkmen Ä Ç
Uzbek
Vietnamese [26] Á À Â Ă Ã Đ É È Ê Ẹ
Volapük Ä
Võro Ä
Walloon [27] Â Å Ç É È Ê
Welsh [28] Á À Â Ä É È Ê Ë
Wolof À É Ë
Xhosa Á À Â Ä É È Ê Ë

Letters associated with H-Q

Derived & Extended Latin letters in various alphabets (H–Q)
Alphabet Ĥ Ḥ Ħ I Í Ì İ Î Ï Ǐ Ĭ Ī Ĩ Į Ị IJ Ĵ Ķ Ƙ (ĸ) Ĺ Ļ Ł Ľ Ŀ ʼN Ń N̈ Ň Ñ Ņ Ŋ Ó Ò Ô Ö Ǒ Ŏ Ō Õ Ő Ọ Ø Ǿ Ơ Œ
ĥ ḥ ħ ı í ì i î ï ǐ ĭ ī ĩ į ị ij ĵ ķ ƙ ĸ ĺ ļ ł ľ ŀ ʼn ń n̈ ň ñ ņ ŋ ó ò ô ö ǒ ŏ ō õ ő ọ ø ǿ ơ œ
Latin [2] Ĭ Ī Ŏ Ō Œ
Afrikaans Í Î Ï Ó Ô
Albanian [3] Î Ô
Alemannic Í Ì Î Ó Ò Ô Ö
Anglo-Saxon Ī Ō
Arbëresh Í Ó Ò
Asturian Í Ñ Ó
Austro-Bavarian Í Ì Î Ó Ò Ô Ö
Azeri ı İ Ö
Basque [4] Ñ
Belarusian [5] Ł Ń
Berber Ḥ
Breton Î Ñ Ô
Cantabrian Ḥ Í Ñ Ó
Catalan [6] Í Ï Ŀ Ó Ò
Celtic British Ĭ Ī Ŏ Ō Œ
Corsican [31] Ì
Crimean Tatar İ Ñ Ö
Croatian [7]
Czech [8] Í Ň Ó
Dalecarlian Į Ö
Danish [9] Ø
Dutch [10] Í Ì Î Ï IJ Ó Ò Ô Ö
English [36] Î Ï Ó Ô Ö Œ
Esperanto Ĥ Ĵ
Estonian Ö Õ
Extremaduran Ñ
Fala Í
Faroese Í Ó Ø
Filipino [11] Ñ
Finnish Ö Õ Ő Ø Œ
French [12] Î Ï Ô Œ
Friulian Ì Î Ò Ô
Galician [33] Í Ñ Ó
German [13] Ö
Greenlandic Ø
Guaraní [14] Í Ĩ Ñ Ó Õ
Hausa [30] Ƙ
Hungarian [15] Í Ó Ö Ő
Icelandic Í Ó Ö
Irish [16] Í Ó
Italian [17] Ì Î Ò
Karakalpak ı İ
Kashubian Ł Ń Ó Ò Ô
Kurdish Î
Latvian [18] Ī Ķ Ļ Ņ
Leonese Í Ï Ñ Ó
Lithuanian [19] Į
Malagasy N̈ Ñ Ô
Maltese [20] Ħ Ì Ò
Māori Ī Ō
Mirandese