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88 languages
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ISO 15924 Basic Latin Alphabet – Uppercase and Lowercase
210,000 speakers
34 language specific characters
ISO 639-1: BR
ISO 639-2: BRE
Breton is written in the Latin script. Peurunvan, the most commonly used orthography, consists of the following letters:
a, b, ch, c’h, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w, y, z
The circumflex, grave accent, trema and tilde appear on some letters. These diacritics are used in the following way:
â, ê, î, ô, û, ù, ü, ñ
200,000,000 speakers
32 language specific characters
ISO 639-1: FR
ISO 639-2: FRE (B), FRA (T)
French is written with the 26 letters of the basic Latin script, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in “ç”.
There are two ligatures, “œ” and “æ”, but they are now often not used because of the layout of the most commom keyboards used in French-speaking countries. Yet, they cannot be changed for “oe” and “ae” in formal and literary texts.
