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Gothic and Roman Lettering Overview

The document provides information about different writing systems and alphabets including Gothic lettering, the Roman alphabet, Spanish orthography, and the Old English Latin alphabet. It describes key features of each such as the letters used, conventions like punctuation, and the time periods and languages they were used for.

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Gothic and Roman Lettering Overview

The document provides information about different writing systems and alphabets including Gothic lettering, the Roman alphabet, Spanish orthography, and the Old English Latin alphabet. It describes key features of each such as the letters used, conventions like punctuation, and the time periods and languages they were used for.

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  • Gothic Lettering and Alphabets

Gothic Lettering (also "blackletter", Old

English calligraphy, etc)

To jump straight into doing Gothic


lettering, go to the Gothic alphabet tutorial
[Link] read on for more information and
links about the different varieties, uses and
history of Gothic script.

The Roman alphabet, also called the Latin


alphabet, is the most widely used alphabet
in the world. You’re reading it right now.

The Roman alphabet has two different forms


of each letter: the minuscule or lower-case
form ...

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
xyz

Spanish orthography is the orthography used


in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses
the Latin script. The spelling is fairly phonemic,
especially in comparison to more opaque
orthographies like English and Irish, having a
relatively consistent mapping
of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the
pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word
can largely be predicted from its spelling and to
a slightly lesser extent vice-versa. Notable
features of Spanish punctuation include the lack
of the serial comma and the inverted question marks and exclamation points: ¿ ¡.

The Old English Latin alphabet—though it had


no standard orthography—generally consisted of
24 letters, and was used for writing Old
English from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Of
these letters, 20 were directly adopted from
the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters
(Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic
alphabet (Ƿ, Þ). The letters K, Q and Z were not in
the spelling of native English words.

Gothic Lettering (also "blackletter", Old English calligraphy, etc) To jump straight into doing Gothic lettering, go to

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