query: How many letters are used in the French alphabet?
passage: French orthography
The French alphabet is based on the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, uppercase and lowercase, with five diacritics and two orthographic ligatures.
passage: Romance languages
The Romance languages are written with the classical Latin alphabet of 23 letters – "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "V", "X", "Y", "Z" – subsequently modified and augmented in various ways. In particular, the single Latin letter "V" split into "V" (consonant) and "U" (vowel), and the letter "I" split into "I" and "J". The Latin letter "K" and the new letter "W", which came to be widely used in Germanic languages, are seldom used in most Romance languages – mostly for unassimilated foreign names and words. Indeed, in Italian prose is properly . Catalan eschews importation of "foreign" letters more than most languages. Thus Wikipedia is in Catalan but in Spanish.