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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18600, 30 December 1920, Page 5

The number of letters in the alphabets of different languages varies considerably. English and German have twenty-six letters; French, twenty-five; Spanish, twenty-seven; t Italian twenty; Russian, thirty-six; Greek, twenty-four; Latin and Hebrew, twenty-two; Celtic, seventeen; Arabic, twenty-eight; Persian, thirty-one; Turkish, twenty-eight; Chinese, tiro hundred and fourteen,