THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

Old English (that is, English as it was spoken between 400 and about 1100 AD) was written using an adapted Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries, write Jonathan Slocum and Winfred P ...

A diagram showing the alphabet symbols carved on the 2,400-year-old tablet. ... Some symbols look similar to the modern Latin alphabet used in English, Spanish and several other languages.

As Old English transformed into Middle English, insular g turned into yogh and, as mentioned earlier, was slowly replaced in large part with the now-standard GH by scribes, at which point insular ...

Some symbols look similar to the modern Latin alphabet used in English, ... But the 2,400-year-old tablet is broken. The end of the alphabet — anywhere from six to 11 symbols — is missing, ...