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Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet

The History of English Podcast

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The Order of the Letters in the Latin Alphabet

Linguists believe that the ordering of the letters in the alphabet is simply a memory device. It makes it easier to learn the letters if you can learn them all in a particular order. Around 350 years, historians and archaeologists have discovered 650 inscriptions written in the early latin alphabet.

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