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The Medieval (Latinised) Futhark had 25 letters. The Gothic alphabet had 27 letters, but two of them had no phonetic value and were never used to write any words, they were used only as numbers. Ever …

First, diacritics are used in English, in borrowed words, sometimes optionally (like in the words café ~ cafe, façade ~ facade), but sometimes there is no alternative spelling without diacritics (like …

In Russian, one of the words for 'alphabet' is азбука (azbuka) which derives from the original old names of the two first letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, азъ for A and букы for Б. Aparently, that's …

Those scripts are usually referred to as the Chinese family of scripts: Chinese family of scripts are writing systems descended from the Chinese Oracle Bone Script and used for a variety of languages …

That's called acrophony or acrophonic principle.

The letter <j> is really used in some Cyrillic-based alphabets, all of them were once created either by a certain person or by a group of people, that is, these alphabets aren't a product of natural evolution … For example, our letter <j> was a part of the official Cyrillic alphabets for Altai, Azerbaijani, Kildin Sami, Orok, and Ossetian. Other Cyrillic alphabets also use <w> and <q>. …

The English sound 'i' as in 'ink' is closer to Ыы [ɨ], which is usually transliterated into the Latin alphabet as Yy. And don't forget, there's also a letter Її that you can use as you like, in realit …

The bottom right shows the Nabatean and Palmyrene alphabets which began as variations of Aramaic but later gave rise to the Arabic and Syriac alphabets respectively. …

The Old Latin alphabet had 3 letters for the sound [k]: C, K, and Q. K was used before A, Q before V (the shape U appeared later), and C elsewhere. Besides, C was also used for the sound [g]. Later, K …