Alphabet
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:
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"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
open all close allBasic Examples (3)
Get the English alphabet:
Get the alphabets for specific languages:
Languages can be specified by entities:
Generalizations & Extensions (1)
Some languages have extra properties:
Options (1)
Language (1)
Applications (1)
Find letters that are in the Polish alphabet but not the English one:
Possible Issues (1)
Mandarin does not have an alphabet:
Related Guides
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), Alphabet, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Alphabet.html (updated 2017).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "Alphabet." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2017. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Alphabet.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). Alphabet. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Alphabet.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_alphabet, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Alphabet}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Alphabet.html}", note=[Accessed: 17-November-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_alphabet, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Alphabet}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Alphabet.html}, note=[Accessed: 17-November-2025]}