What is Latin script?
{{Infobox writing system |name=Latin<br />Roman |type=[[Letter case|Bicameral]] impure [[Alphabet]] |languages= {{hlist|list_style=line-height:1.3em; | Most [[Languages of Europe|western European languages]], including [[Latin language|Latin]] | many [[Turkic languages|Turkic]], [[Finno-Ugric languages|Finno-Ugric]] and [[Eskimo–Aleut languages]] | [[Basque language]] | [[Polynesian languages]] | some [[Languages of Africa|African]], [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] and [[Austroasiatic languages]]}} |time=~700&nbsp;BC–present |fam1= [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] |fam2=[[Proto-Sinaitic]] |fam3=[[Phoenician alphabet]] |fam4=[[Greek alphabet]] |fam5=[[Old Italic script]] |sisters=[[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]]<br />[[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]]<br />[[Georgian script|Georgian]]<br />[[Coptic alphabet|Coptic]]<br />[[Runic alphabet|Runic/Futhark]] |children=[[Fraser alphabet]] ([[Lisu language|Lisu]])<br />[[Osage script]]<br />(partially) several [[Phonetic transcription|phonetic alphabet]]s, such as [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]], which have been used to write languages with no native script<br />(partially) [[Pollard script]] (Miao)<br />(partially) [[Woleai script|Caroline Island script (Woleaian)]]<br />(indirectly) [[Cherokee syllabary]]<br />(indirectly, partially) [[Yugtun script]] |sample=A Specimen by William Caslon.jpg |imagesize=200px |unicode=See [[Latin characters in Unicode]] |iso15924=Latn |IPAChartEng=1 }} The '''Latin''' or '''Roman script''' is a [[writing system]] used to write many modern-day [[language]]s including [[English language|English]]. It is the most used writing system in the world today. It is the official script for nearly all the languages of Western Europe and of some Eastern European languages. It is also used by some non-European languages such as [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Malay language|Malay]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Somali language|Somali]], [[Swahili language|Swahili]] and [[Tagalog]]. It is an alternative w