Are the first letters of the names of languages always written in uppercase in English?
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Uppercase
Synonyms for "uppercase" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(2 words)
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20 translations across 13 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- hoofletters adj (written in upper case)
Armenian
1 entries- մեծատառ adj (written in upper case)
Catalan
1 entries- majúscul adj (written in upper case)
Finnish
1 entries- versaali adj (written in upper case)
French
1 entries- majuscule adj (written in upper case)
Georgian
1 entries- ზედა რეგისტრის adj (written in upper case)
German
2 entries- groß adj (written in upper case)
- großgeschrieben adj (written in upper case)
Hungarian
2 entries- nagybetűs adj (written in upper case)
- verzál adj (written in upper case)
Indonesian
1 entries- kapital adj (written in upper case)
Russian
3 entries- большо́й adj (written in upper case)
- загла́вный adj (written in upper case)
- прописно́й adj (written in upper case)
Spanish
3 entries- de caja alta adj (written in upper case)
- titular adj (written in upper case)
- versal adj (written in upper case)
Swedish
1 entries- versal adj (written in upper case)
Tagalog
2 entries- kaha-alta adj (written in upper case)
- mayuskula adj (written in upper case)
Sample sentences
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Latin was written without spaces between the letters, and entirely in uppercase.
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You can add sentences whose translations you don't know. Maybe someone else knows them. Please pay attention to uppercase and lowercase letters and punctuation! Thank you.
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The Cherokee syllabary, just like the Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin alphabets, has a distinction between lowercase and uppercase letters.
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