Though the Greeks changed the look of the symbols, they largely kept the order the same. As the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet, they dropped certain letters, such as Y and Z.

There's English and French, like in every other province, but in Nunavut there's also Inuktitut, the language of the Inuits. Inuktitut is an interesting language because of its alphabet.

The red-headed stepchild of our alphabet, “J” was only introduced in standardized spelling in the 15th century by the Spanish and only appeared consistently in print around 1640.

The military phonetic alphabet consists of the standard English alphabet, plus a few extra words that are specific to military use. Some of these words include "Alpha," "Bravo," and "Charlie." ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

It even had its own song.This isn't the only letter that has been lost in time. Languages grow and evolve, and English has actually lost a few letters along the way, while not gaining U and J ...

In English however, instead of a rounded "o" sound it made a long "e" sound, such as in the word subpoena/subpœna. Much like Ash, it eventually was split into two letters, namely o and e.

The alphabet, or script, has at least 21 symbols, officials said. Some symbols look similar to the modern Latin alphabet used in English, Spanish and several other languages.

Let CBBC's Naomi Wilkinson bring the alphabet to life with this memorable song and movement routine. This song might also help pupils learning English as an additional language.