Glossary for Geospatial Science

Latin alphabet:� The character encoding scheme used by most Western nations, based on the alphabet developed in Roman antiquity, itself a derivative of the Greek and Western Semitic alphabets.� The Latin alphabet is used by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages such as Turkish, Swahili, and Vietnamese.� The Latin alphabet is sometimes referred to as the Roman alphabet, but �Roman� is not used in this discussion so as to avoid confusion, since the term �Roman� is often used in typeface and character style contexts.