Writing systems that descend from the Greek alphabet, which has been used to write the Greek language since about the ninth or eighth century BC. Greek was adapted in several places and periods, and the Latin script now used across much of the world derives from a form of it that was in use in the Greek city of Cumae in southern Italy. The group covers the Greek alphabet itself and the scripts that grew from it, so that letter forms and letter names can be followed from one script to the next.
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Greek alphabet (Wikipedia)
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
Latin script (Wikipedia)
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The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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