The Latin Alphabet is the same as the English (which is in fact borrowed from it) except that it does not contain J, U, and W.
a. The character C originally meant G, a value always retained in the abbreviations C. (for Gāius) and Cn. (for Gnaeus).
b.I and V were used both as vowels and as consonants (see § 5).
In this book i is used for both vowel and consonant i, u for vowel u, and v for consonant u: iūs, vir, iuvenis.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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