This section is from the book "Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: A Guide To Correct Writing", by Thos. E. Hill. Also available from Amazon: Hill's Manual Of Social And Business Forms: The How-To-Do-Everything Book Of Victorian America.
The number of letters in the alphabets of different nations is as follows:
Nation.
Russian. Turkish. Arabic.. German. English. Spanish. French. Greek..
Latin___
Hebrew. Persian. Italian.
No. of Letters.
.......35
.......28
.......2S
.......26
.......26
.......25
.......25
.......24
.......23
.......22
*......22
.......20
 
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