The Rotokas language uses only 12 letters — one of the tiniest alphabets.
You could learn the whole thing in one day. It has just a few letters to make all its words.
💡 Bảng chữ cái — Fun Facts
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The Khmer alphabet in Cambodia has 74 letters — one of the biggest in the world.
That is almost three times as many letters as the English alphabet! Children there have a lot of letters to learn.
The letter E is used more than any other letter in English.
If you look at a page of writing, you will spot lots and lots of E's. It is the busiest letter of all!
The letters a, e, i, o, and u are called vowels.
Every word needs at least one vowel. The other letters are called consonants.
The Vietnamese alphabet has 29 letters and uses little tone marks.
It uses the same kind of letters as English, plus special marks above and below to show how a word should sound.
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two Greek letters: alpha and beta.
Long ago in Greece, the first letter was called alpha and the second was beta. Put them together and you get "alphabet."
The English alphabet has 26 letters, from A to Z.
We start with A and end with Z. Every word you read is made from these 26 letters!