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".
Ottoman Turkish alphabet second letter of a syllable: "elif" for /a/; "ye" for /i/, /ɯ/; "vav" for /o/, /œ/, /u/, /y/; "he" for /a/, /e/. The corresponding "harakat" are there: "ustun" (Arabic "fatḥah") for /a/, /e/; "esre" (Arabic "kasrah") for /ɯ/, /i/; "ötre" (Arabic "ḍammah") for /o/, /œ/, /u/, /y/. The names of the "harakat" are also used for the corresponding vowels. Other scripts were sometimes used by non-Muslims to write Ottoman Turkish since the Arabic alphabet was identified with Islam. The first novel to be written in the Ottoman Empire was "Akabi" (1851), which was written in the Armenian script by Vartan