Script - Latin
Latin is a script originally developed in ancient Italy, used for writing Latin and, later, the Romance languages, as well as Germanic, Celtic, and many other language families. Its alphabet, derived from the Etruscan and Greek scripts, became the most widely adopted writing system in the world, serving as the basis for English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German, among others. The script includes uppercase and lowercase letterforms, diacritical marks for specific sounds, and punctuation adapted across diverse languages. Its value in encoding systems identifies a broad set of characters that support these languages, including basic A–Z letters, extended Latin variants like accented vowels, and specialized ligatures, enabling digital representation of texts from medieval manuscripts to modern global communication.