Not only should the names be carefully selected with special reference to the objects which the map is intended to serve, and to prevent overcrowding by the introduction of names which can serve no useful object, but they should also be arranged in such a manner as to be read easily by a person consulting the map. It is an accepted rule now that the spelling of names in countries using the Roman alphabet should be retained, with such exceptions as have been familiarized by long usage.
The Roman alphabet was very soon applied to the purpose of writing the native language, e.g.
The Roman alphabet first came into use among the western and northern Teutonic peoples after their adoption of Christianity.
The inscription runs from right to left, and is in letters which show more clearly than ever that the Roman alphabet is borrowed from the alphabets of the Chalcidian Greek colonies in Italy.
Latin and the modern Roman alphabet were also adapted from the Phoenician alphabet (and then from the Greek ).
