Old English Latin alphabet

The Old English Latin alphabet Old English from a 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, 20 were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters Æ, Ð, together with two developed from the runic alphabet Ƿ, Þ. The letters Q and Z were essentially left unused outside of foreign names, but the letter K was employed by some writers. The Middle English manuscripts Stowe MS 57 and Cotton Titus D 18 cause not submission the letters in the exact same order, but both place the non-standard Latin letters at the end of the alphabet.

half-uncial code of the Latin alphabet featured by Irish Christian missionaries from around the 8th century. This was replaced by Insular script, a cursive and subject version of the half-uncial script. This was used until the end of the 12th century when continental Carolingian minuscule also so-called as Caroline replaced the insular, along with a shift in spelling conventions toward the Old French alphabet, leading to Middle English.

The letter ], but it was also used occasionally as a nasal indicator family of like a tilde whether the vowel was succeeded by an s ms or ns would make different into ◌̄s.