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What country has the largest alphabet?

It's difficult to definitively say which country has the "largest" alphabet because it depends on how you define "alphabet" and "largest".

Here are a few factors to consider:

* Number of letters: Some languages, like Khmer (used in Cambodia) have a large number of letters, around 74, but many are considered to be "digraphs" or "trigraphs", combining multiple characters to represent single sounds.

* Number of characters: If you consider Chinese or Japanese, they have thousands of characters. However, these aren't strictly letters in the same sense as the English alphabet. They are logographic, meaning each character represents a whole word or concept.

* Consonants and vowels: Some alphabets, like Arabic or Hebrew, have separate letters for consonants and vowels, but the vowels are often implied or written with diacritics.

To sum up:

* If you're counting the number of unique letters, then Khmer might have the largest alphabet.

* If you're counting the total number of characters, then Chinese and Japanese would have the most.

Ultimately, it's up to you to decide which criteria you use to define the "largest" alphabet.

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