Roman alphabet

音标发音

happens because most Chinese people use electronic input systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.
中国的学者指出，“提笔忘字”的情况会发生是因为大部分中国人使用的电子设备输入法都是拼音输入法，所有汉字都通过字母来输入。
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The 26 inherently meaningless letters of the Roman alphabet suited the technology perfectly, and within three decades there were print shops in every corner of the continent.
26个生来没意义的罗马字母完美地配合了这项技术，在三十年内整个欧洲大陆的每个角落都有了印刷店。
Chinese boffins say that character amnesia happens because most Chinese people use electronic input systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet。
中国的学者指出，“提笔忘字”的情况会发生是因为大部分中国人使用的电子设备输入法都是拼音输入法，所有汉字都通过字母来输入。
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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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the alphabet used for writing most western European languages, including English

The Roman alphabet is the alphabet that was used by the Romans in ancient times and that is used for writing most western European languages, including English.