The Romany alphabet (Romani šib) is the official standard alphabet for writing the Romany language, in all of its many dialects. It is derived from the Latin alphabet, and has 46 characters. The alphabet was standardized in 1990 at the Fourth World Romani Congress held in Serock, Poland. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Romany (or Romani) is the language of the Roma and Sinti, travelling peoples often referred to in English as gypsies. They came originally from the Indian Subcontinent or what is now, northern India and parts of Pakistan, and their language belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... This article is about the year. ... Coat of arms of Serock Serock is a town at the north bank of the Zegrze lake in the Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodship, Poland. ...

Its 46 uppercase characters are:

A Ä B C Ć Č D Ď E Ê F G Ǧ H I Î J K Ǩ L Ľ M N Ň O Ö P P̌ Q R Ŕ Ř S Ś Š T Ť U Ü V W X Y Z Ź Ž // A The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Ä, or ä, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter A with umlaut, or a letter A with diaeresis. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... the letter C itself C++ and C# redirect here. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Other languages FAQs | Table free Welcome to Wikipedia, the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. ... The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... ÄŽ is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... Are you looking for the article on the F Sharp programming language? You may have made your way to this page due to technical limitations in Wikipedia. ... G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... Romany letter (G with háček, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in the Romany and Skolt Sami languages. ... H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Due to MediaWikis uppercase algorithm, ı (lower case dotless i) will bring you here. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... For the Arthurian character named Kay, see Sir Kay. ... This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... ... M is the thirteenth letter of the latin alphabet. ... N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Ň is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Ö, or ö, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter O with umlaut, or a letter O with diaeresis. ... P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Å” is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... Ř is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... č Å¡ ž A háček (ˇ, pronounced ), also known as a caron, is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization or iotation in the orthography of Baltic languages and some Slavic languages, whereas some Finno-Lappic languages use it to mark postalveolar fricatives (sh, zh, ch). ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Ãœ, or ü, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. ... V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ...

with the following lowercase forms:

a ä b c ć č d ď e ê f g ǧ h i î j k ǩ l ľ m n ň o ö p p̌ q r ŕ ř s ś š t ť u ü v w x y z ź ž. // A The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Ä, or ä, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter A with umlaut, or a letter A with diaeresis. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... the letter C itself C++ and C# redirect here. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Other languages FAQs | Table free Welcome to Wikipedia, the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. ... The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... ÄŽ is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... Are you looking for the article on the F Sharp programming language? You may have made your way to this page due to technical limitations in Wikipedia. ... G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... Romany letter (G with háček, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in the Romany and Skolt Sami languages. ... H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Due to MediaWikis uppercase algorithm, ı (lower case dotless i) will bring you here. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek, French, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Japanese romaji, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. ... The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... For the Arthurian character named Kay, see Sir Kay. ... This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... ... M is the thirteenth letter of the latin alphabet. ... N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Ň is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Ö, or ö, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter O with umlaut, or a letter O with diaeresis. ... P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Å” is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... Ř is a letter used in the Romany alphabet. ... S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... č Å¡ ž A háček (ˇ, pronounced ), also known as a caron, is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization or iotation in the orthography of Baltic languages and some Slavic languages, whereas some Finno-Lappic languages use it to mark postalveolar fricatives (sh, zh, ch). ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Ãœ, or ü, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. ... V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... Caron redirects here, for the French actress, see Leslie Caron. ...

Twenty of the 46 characters in the Romany alphabet are accented, namely:

• versions with caron of the letters C, D, G, K, L, N, P, R, S, T and Z,
• umlauted versions of the letters A, O and U,
• E and I with circumflexes, and
• C, R, S and Z with acute accents.

Caron may refer to multiple things. ... Ä ä Ö ö Ãœ ü The term umlaut is used for two closely related notions: a special kind of vowel modification and a particular diacritic mark. ... The circumflex ( ˆ ) is a diacritic mark used in written Esperanto, French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Welsh, and other languages. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ...

Important note

Two of seven Romany languages do not use this alphabet: the Carpathian Romany language and the Finnish Romany language. The alphabet of the former language also uses the Latin, but has twelve letters less than the alphabet of the six other Romany languages. The alphabet of Finnish Romany is based on the Finnish alphabet with the letter H with caron added. The Carpathian Romany language is an Indo-European language, spoken in the Czech Republic (220 000 speakers), Hungary (3 000), Poland, Romania, Slovakia (220 000) and Ukraine. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Finnish alphabet is as follows: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S (Å ), T, U, V W, X, Y, Z (Ž), Ã…, Ä, Ö The main features of the Finnish alphabet that make it different from other Latin-based alphabets are: The...

See also

• Carpathian Romany alphabet

See also

• International Romani Union

The International Romani Union is an organization active for the rights of the Roma. ...

External links

• Unicode test page and transliteration / transcription tables for writing systems (alphabets, abjads, syllabaries) of various languages
• Michael Everson's page for Romani alphabets
• World: Roma Find They Speak A Common Language