Assertion: latin alphabet | /r/HasAspect | 21 letters
Facets:
value: originally
type: OTHER
value: in the first century bce
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The Latin alphabet originally had 21 letters in the first century BCE, but then, as the Romans became Hellenized, they added two letters at the end of the alphabet, a Y for the Greek upsilon, and a Z for the Greek zeta, which then had no equivalent in the Latin language.