>>49176580This is wrong. The letter K is used even in the Lapis Niger inscription. The later Romans primarily used the letter K in Greek loans or in Latin words where the "k"sound is followed by an "a" like in "kalendae" (first day of the month). The Romans didn't recieve their alphabet directly from the Greek. Rather, it was via the Etruscans, who didn't distinguish their voiced and unvoiced "K" sounds, using the letter C (which descends from Greek Gamma and ultimately the Phoenician Giml) for the sounds "K" and "G" without distinction. According to Plutarch it was Spurius Carvilius who introduced the letter G, an orthographic distinction to reflect the phonologic distiction.
