> To extend the list, the Irish, Scots, English, Scandinavians and Poles
> picked up the Roman heritage without the assistance of being physically
> conquered.  And the Romanians re-established it as an expression of
> non-Slavness.

Well, the official language of Hungary was Latin up until 1844. Does
that qualify us as the true inheritors of the Roman Empire?

> You typographers may be happy to call it the 'Latin script', but to
> most of us it is still the '*Roman* alphabet'.

Nah, it is called ‘latin betűk’ ‘Latin letters’ in everyday Hungarian.

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