WI:Alternate Latin Alphabet

What are some ways to deviate the evolution of the script as a whole? (Not one language!) Are there any characters that could have been officially recognized? Could a different script cause differences in history?
 
C/G, I/J and U/V (plus the letter W) came to the alphabet late (plus K and F maybe?). If there is a prior alteration to the alphabet, those might get butterflied away.

The easier route is Latin borrowings from Greek. The Romans didn't have letters to represent some sounds in the Greek language, so they wrote the closest sound in their language and added an h to the letter to represent it. That's how we got some digraphs like ph, th and ch (as in chi). Ph sound has its own letter as well, F. So we might get a th and ch letter.
 
C/G, I/J and U/V (plus the letter W) came to the alphabet late (plus K and F maybe?). If there is a prior alteration to the alphabet, those might get butterflied away.

The easier route is Latin borrowings from Greek. The Romans didn't have letters to represent some sounds in the Greek language, so they wrote the closest sound in their language and added an h to the letter to represent it. That's how we got some digraphs like ph, th and ch (as in chi). Ph sound has its own letter as well, F. So we might get a th and ch letter.

That seems a bit easy.

What about... ligatures. Lots and lots of ligatures. Having all of the ligatures survive for use in vernacular.
 
You could have the Claudian letters introduced by Emperor Claudius survive longer than they did.

(the claudian letters were these oddities





 
The letter thorn Þþ and the vowel letter Øø could have become more general, and also the ligatures Ææ and Œœ. Apart from that, some Greek and Cyrillic letters might have been possible. Hebrew letters were known, and imported into new Cyrillic letters, so that might have happened in the west too. Sh, zh, kh and gh could be nice to have letters for, and some more vowels and l-sounds (Swedish has ten to thirteen vowels and five l sounds).

Then we have the question of marking the length of sounds, which is troublesome in several languages.
 
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Sh sounds a likely sound to have a letter for, as both Semitic languages and Cyrilic have it.

Also long vowel sounds.
 
C/G, I/J and U/V (plus the letter W) came to the alphabet late (plus K and F maybe?). If there is a prior alteration to the alphabet, those might get butterflied away.

The easier route is Latin borrowings from Greek. The Romans didn't have letters to represent some sounds in the Greek language, so they wrote the closest sound in their language and added an h to the letter to represent it. That's how we got some digraphs like ph, th and ch (as in chi). Ph sound has its own letter as well, F. So we might get a th and ch letter.

The Romans had H long before they started using PH, TH, and CH. Φ, Θ and Χ in the third century BC (when the Romans started having important contacts with the Greek cities) were probably pronounced as an aspirated F, T and K, respectively, which is why they were transliterated the way they were.

Latin actually used the forerunner to the acute accent for marking long vowels (áéíóú) but that practice seems to have been lost sometime. Retaining it seems interesting for this thread.

You'd probably have to keep the distinction between long and short vowels; IOTL this was lost in Latin sometime during the late antique period.
 
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