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Masataka Ohta (mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp) writes:
>Kosta Kostis (kosta@blues.kk.sub.org) writes:
>>Greek, Latin and Cyrillic are three different *alphabets*.
>>
>>When I say "alphabets" I'm referring to a small number of characters with
>>an order that allow the "user" of such an alphabet to write text in their
>>language. At least some characters in the above mentioned alphabets look
>>different and have different meanings or can't be found in all alphabets.
>
>German alphabet has a character "A with umlaut" which can't be found in
>French alphabet.

Masataka is right on the comment, but wrong on the example since the
French and German alphabets are the same.

But saying that Latin script is one alphabet as Kosta did, is not very
appropriate, since with "alphabet" we usually mean an ordered set of
letters from which we in their original or modified shape form words
of our language. What is included in the alphabet is very much a con-
vention; recently we had a discussion in a group about the Swedish
language on whether W was part of the Swedish alphabet or not. (It is 
not.)

There are about as many Latin alphabets as there are languages written
with the Latin script, however many of them coincide. But if even if
they coincide, the languages may use different modifiers.
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