The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

罗马人模仿了这个想法，现在世界各地都在使用罗马字母表。

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In written form, Vietnamese USES the Roman alphabet and accent marks to show tones.

从书写形式上看，越南语使用罗马字母和重音符号来标识音调。

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Now in fact W was not part of the Roman alphabet. We English invented W after adopting the 23 letters that came as a standard set from the Romans.

不过呢W其实并不在罗马字母表内。在采用了罗马人的标准字母表中的23个字母后，我们英国人自己发明了这个W。

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Not many countries need ingenuity as much as Japan: kanji characters each need twice as much capacity as the roman alphabet.

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And the introduction by a French missionary of a system for transliterating Vietnamese into the roman alphabet played a great role in unifying the country.

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