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That got me wondering what percentage of the world uses the Roman alphabet, and the answers I found vary from "36% of the world population"[0] to "nearly 70 per
by dane-pgp 5y ago
That got me wondering what percentage of the world uses the Roman alphabet, and the answers I found vary from "36% of the world population"[0] to "nearly 70 percent of the world’s population"[1].
In any case, I think it's fair to say that it's a plurality, if not a majority, and that the letters A-Z are the most natural "core" set of glyphs from which the other (upper case) Roman-derived letters are built.
[0] https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/ https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/
[1] https://www.britannica.com/list/the-worlds-5-most-commonly-used-writing-systems https://www.britannica.com/list/the-worlds-5-most-commonly-u...