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Comment by noosphr

2 days ago

An alphabet assigns a letter to a sound. No more no less. English no longer has an alphabet because the Latin alphabet, designed for Latin languages, replaced the native Runic alphabet.

Serbian has an alphabet, as does Italian. All other European languages I'm aware of don't.

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jamiek88  2 days ago

Interesting! So what’s the abc’s we learn then?

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