Communication · c. 700 BCE

Latin alphabet

Romans adopt letters via the Etruscans and create the most widely used script on Earth.

Derived from a western Greek alphabet through Etruscan, the Latin alphabet was in use by the 7th century BCE. Spread by Rome, the Church and later European empires and printing, it is now used by roughly 70 percent of the world's population.

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