Introduction Most of you will be familiar with this alphabet since it’s the most popular. Germanic languages decided to abandon their previous Runic and Gothic alphabets to make room for the Latin alphabet with the spread of Christianity during the middle ages. This spread of the Latin alphabet in the Germanic world happened thanks to Charlemagne, who wanted German to have an established writing system. Download o caminho para a eternidade dublado. Although Latin was the written language by default, the first texts written in German began appearing during eighth century.