The
Old English Latin alphabet—though it had no standard
orthography—generally consisted of 24 letters, and was used for writing
Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, 20 were directly adopted from the
Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (
Æ,
Ð), and two developed from the
runic alphabet (
Ƿ,
Þ). The letters
K,
Q and
Z were not in the spelling of native English words.