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The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet , two were modified Latin letters ( Æ , Ð ), and two developed from the runic alphabet ( Ƿ , Þ ).
18 wrz 2008 · Modern English words beginning with wh are commonly spelled using hw in Old English: what, OE hwæt. Although Old and Modern English have a large number of letters in common, the forms of these letter were not always the same.
Old English / Anglo-Saxon was first written with a version of the Runic alphabet known as Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Frisian runes, or futhorc/fuþorc. This alphabet was an extended version of Elder Futhark with between 26 and 33 letters.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
A careful study of the OE sound system has revealed that a set of letters, s, f and Þ (also shown as ð) stood for two sounds each: a voiced and voiceless consonant. And yet, on the whole, OE spelling was far more phonetic and consistent than Mod E spelling.
Old English Latin alphabet or Anglo-Saxon Latin alphabet is one of the two scripts of Old English. As a rule, it consisted of 24 letters and was used for writing in the 9th — 12th centuries. Of these, 20 were directly Latin letters, two modifications of the Latin letters (Ææ, Ðð), and two graphemes borrowed from the runic alphabet (Þþ ...
The following table lists the Old English letters and digraphs together with the phonemes they represent, using the same notation as in the Phonology section above.
