Alphabet

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`Alphabet`

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Alphabet[]

gives a list of the lowercase letters a through z in the English alphabet.

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Alphabet[type]

gives the alphabet for the language or class type.

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Alphabet[type,prop]

gives the alphabet defined by prop for the language or class type .

Details and Options

Language types can be specified by standard names for languages, as used in LanguageData, or by language entities.
Special alphabet types include: "Greek", "Cyrillic", "Arabic", "Devanagari".
Alphabet[type,"Properties"] gives a list of available properties for the given type.
Properties include:

	"AuxiliaryCharacters"	auxiliary characters
	"CommonAlphabet"	most common characters
	"CommonAlphabetUpper"	uppercase common characters
	"FullCharacters"	all characters
	"IndexCharacters"	characters appearing in index
	"Languages"	languages
	"UnicodeLocale"	Unicode locale code
	"WritingScripts"	writing script entities

Alphabet[Language->lang] is equivalent to Alphabet[lang].

Examples

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Basic Examples (3)Summary of the most common use cases

Get the English alphabet:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-cw3tgo

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Get the alphabets for specific languages:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-dy6syv

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-cfbza9

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Languages can be specified by entities:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-ffrfwp

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Generalizations & Extensions (1)Generalized and extended use cases

Some languages have extra properties:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-vg6vc4

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-0r9f0h

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Options (1)Common values & functionality for each option

Language (1)

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-4d4hb

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Applications (1)Sample problems that can be solved with this function

Find letters that are in the Polish alphabet but not the English one:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-xzlkvz

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Possible Issues (1)Common pitfalls and unexpected behavior

Mandarin does not have an alphabet:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0bn6o9u-5knmap

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