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- But no! Writing systems that do have two different cases are known as “bicameral scripts,” and these include all the languages that use Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian scripts, among others. Because of the Latin alphabet’s huge influence on Western culture, it only seems like bicameral scripts are the norm.
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All languages using the Arabic alphabet are written right-to-left. A number of other languages have been written in the Arabic alphabet in the past, but now are more commonly written in Latin characters; examples include Turkish, Somali and Swahili.
French capitalises all proper nouns and names, as well as the first letter in a written sentence. It is only the days of the week and the months that aren't capitalised, which is also the case across many other European languages (Russian, Polish, etc). This is literally all the difference between English and French.
However, English is the only major modern European language that uses the basic Latin alphabet, without any additional letters formed by adding diacritical marks or completely new symbols. Although the letter “é” may be used in words like “café” and “fiancée”, it is usually replaced by “e”.
Alphabets, or phonemic alphabets, are sets of letters, usually arranged in a fixed order, each of which represents one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels, in the language they are used to write.
IPA letters have been incorporated into the alphabets of various languages, notably via the Africa Alphabet in many sub-Saharan languages such as Hausa, Fula, Akan, Gbe languages, Manding languages, Lingala, etc. Capital case variants have been created for use in these languages
It's a feature particular to languages that use the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets (and a couple of related alphabets). In particular, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, the Indian and Southeast Asian scripts, and Arabic (and Hebrew) do not capitalize.
Majuscule is a type of writing that today we would call capital letters, and it was the dominant form of writing in the Greek and Roman empires. During the early centuries of writing with the Latin alphabet, scribes would use Trajan and, later, Rustic, which were essentially ancient fonts.
