Assertion: latin alphabet | /r/HasProperty | adopted by the peoples of northern europe
Facets:
value: gradually
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: With the spread of Western Christianity during the Middle Ages, the Latin alphabet was gradually adopted by the peoples of Northern Europe who spoke Celtic languages (displacing the Ogham alphabet) or Germanic languages (displacing earlier Runic alphabets) or Baltic languages, as well as by the speakers of several Uralic languages, most notably Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.