Latin Script

By way of Euboean Greek colonists and the Etruscan alphabet in Italy, not by direct adoption.

Sequoyah, unable to read English, borrowed roughly two dozen letterforms he had seen in a printed English spelling book, along with some Greek and Hebrew derived shapes, but assigned them entirely different Cherokee syllable values. The syllabary is not descended from the Latin alphabet; it borrows some of its shapes without any of its sound values.

Akan is standardly written in a Latin-based orthography (Twi/Fante conventions).

Aymara is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.

Basque is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Standard Bosnian is written primarily in the Latin alphabet (Gaj's Latin alphabet).

Cebuano is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Chichewa (Nyanja) is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Ewe is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet with additional IPA-derived letters.

Faroese is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Fijian is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Fon is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.

Fula (Fulani) is standardly written in the Latin alphabet today (historically also in Arabic-derived Ajami script).

Guarani is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Haitian Creole is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Modern Hausa is predominantly written in the Latin-based Boko orthography; Ajami (Arabic-based) remains in use for religious and some traditional writing.

Hawaiian is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (with the 'okina and kahako).

Hiligaynon is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Igbo is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (Onwu orthography).

Ilocano is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Kashmiri is occasionally romanized, but its official scripts are Perso-Arabic (Jammu and Kashmir) and Devanagari (used in India); recorded here for the Latin-based transliteration convention used in linguistic literature.

Latin augmented with click letters (the Lepsius letters later adopted as IPA symbols) for the language click consonants.

Kinyarwanda is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Kirundi is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Kurdish is biscriptal: the Kurmanji dialect is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.

Latvian is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Luxembourgish is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Malagasy is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Modern Malay is predominantly written in the Latin-based Rumi script; Jawi, an Arabic-based script, remains official for religious and traditional use in Malaysia and Brunei.

Maori is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (with macrons).

Old English came to be written in the Latin alphabet following Christianization, alongside its earlier and parallel use of Anglo-Saxon runes (futhorc).

Adopted for Old Norse following Christianization in the 11th century, alongside continued runic use.

Oromo is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (Qubee).

Quechua is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Romani, where written, most commonly uses the Latin alphabet.

Samoan is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Serbian is officially digraphic: Latin (Gaj Latin alphabet) and Cyrillic are both in standard use.

Sesotho is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Slovak is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Slovenian is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Somali is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since 1972).

Modern Sundanese is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (the historical Sundanese script is now largely ceremonial).

Swahili was earlier written in an Arabic-derived script known as Ajami; Latin-script orthography became standard under European colonial administration and is now near universal.

Tongan is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Tswana is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Turkmen is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s).

Uzbek is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s transition from Cyrillic).

Waray is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

No single standardized orthography exists; several Latin-based orthographies are in use across the dialect cluster, so this is recorded as associated rather than holds.

Wolof is standardly written in the Latin alphabet today (historically also in Arabic-derived Wolofal script).

Xhosa is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

Zulu is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.