Romanian alphabet S, T). Romanian alphabet The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Romanian language. It is a modification of the classical Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters, five of which (Ă, Â, Î, Ș, and Ț) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language: The letters Q ("chiu"), W ("dublu v"), and Y ("igrec" or "i grec") were formally introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier. They occur only in foreign words and their Romanian derivatives, such as "quasar", "watt", and "yacht".
Turkish alphabet for the common properties of the nation. Tax is a debt we need to pay""; ""It is the duty of every Turk to defend the homeland against the enemies."" The alphabet reform was promoted as redeeming the Turkish people from the neglect of the Ottoman rulers: ""Sultans did not think of the public, Ghazi commander [Atatürk] saved the nation from enemies and slavery. And now, he declared a campaign against ignorance [illiteracy]. He armed the nation with the new Turkish alphabet."" The historian Bernard Lewis has described the introduction of the new alphabet as "not so much practical as pedagogical,