Many nations switched from one alphabet to another, and the reasons for that are known only by educated people which obvioulsey, it is not case of diletants like ravenescu, franco, reason is my religion and othere preistorical characters like those.
The Ostrogoths of ancient Germany and ITALY and the Visigoths of Eastern Europe and SPAIN spoke Gothic.
look how the Gothic alphabet looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet
The first alphabet was invented by Semitic-speakers in the ancient Near East. The Canaanite and later Phoenician alphabets had only consonants, with no vowels. The Greeks derived their alphabet from the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels, thereby producing the first true alphabet.
The Greeks brought A WESTERN FORM OF THE GREEK ALPHABETH TO ITALY , and the Etruscans acquired the alphabet from them. THE ETRUSCAN PASSED THEN THEIR ALPHABETH TO THE ROMANS.
The English language was first written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet, in use from the fifth century. This alphabet was brought to what is now England, along with the proto-form of the language itself, by Anglo-Saxon settlers. Very few examples of this form of written Old English have survived, these being mostly short inscriptions or fragments.
The Latin alphabet, introduced by Christian missionaries, began to replace the Anglo-Saxon futhorc from about the seventh century, although the two continued in parallel for some time. Futhorc influenced the Latin alphabet by providing it with the letters thorn (Þ þ) and wynn (Ƿ ƿ). The letter eth (Ð ð) was later devised as a modification of d, and finally yogh (Ȝ ȝ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular g in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian g.
In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes.
The Etruscan alphabet was diffused at the end of the Archaic period, around 500 CE, into northern Italy and became the model for the alphabets of the Alpine populations.
Then, for the IBERIAN people (regions of actual Spain and Portugal) we can find the same or very similar symbols as in different cultures around the world. In a VERY simple way, this is the sequence: phoenician - greek - etruscan - latin. And from phoenician alphabet = iberian alphabet = norse runes (this is one of the theories, there are a bunch of others). There is also a resembling between Iberian alphabet and letters of the South ARABIAN script, Tifinag and many others.
Linguists say that Iberian alphabet is the result of the Tartessian alphabet (9th century BC, derived from Phoenician alphabet) and a certain Greek influence ???.
The first type of alphabet that was developed was the ABJAD. An abjad is an alphabetic writing system where there is one symbol per consonant. Abjads differ from regular alphabets in that they only have characters for consonantal sounds. Vowels are not usually marked in abjad.
All known abjads (except maybe Tifinagh) belong to the Semitic family of scripts, and derive from the original Northern Linear Abjad. The reason for this is that Semitic languages and the related Berber languages have a morphemic structure which makes the denotation of vowels redundant in most cases.
Some abjads (like Arabic and Hebrew) have markings for vowels as well, but only use them in special contexts, such as for teaching. Many scripts derived from abjads have been extended with vowel symbols to become full alphabets, the most famous case being the derivation of the Greek alphabet from the Phoenician abjad. This has mostly happened when the script was adapted to a non-Semitic language.
The term abjad takes its name from the old order of the Arabic alphabet's consonants Alif, B�, Jim, D�l, though the word may have earlier roots in Phoenician or Ugaritic.
Abjad is still the word for alphabet in Arabic and Indonesian.
In conclusion, the Slavonic alphabeth was replaced by the Latin one in the same circumstances and conditions as in so many other places aorund the world.
Herodotus, wrote about Thracians: "...after the Indians, the Thracian people constituted the largest ethnicity among all the rest of the world's races. Should they benefit from one ruling only and be spiritually united, they might succeed to become, in my opinion, absolutely undefeatable and to surpass, by far, the greatness of all the other Earth's proud races. The Thracians bear many names, each one according to their living regions, yet all of them show, through almost everything, highly similar customs".
Because of their philosophy and beliefs, Herodot described the Dacians as "the bravest and the most righteous of all the Thracians".
Based on the above information, we can understand how was possible to find the basic philosophy and beliefs of the Dacian priests spreaded, throughout the Europe.
Now, if the Thracians constituted the largest ethnicity among all races of the world, where and how could they so simple disappear without trace?
If Romanians are not the " Thracians/Dacians 'traces" descendants, who are they and where are they coming from? How could they be/became the most numerous population in the Carpathian basin (former Dacia, actual Romania)?
These are questions what Hungary's historians are not able to answer but they insist on and to promote the absurd migrations theory of Roesler, (that the Romanians immigrated from the southern of the Danube into the north). What a nonsense, naive and especially a waste of time from the others who tries to debate this with those pseudohistorians (who cannot handle the truth)...
For a better information and for whoever wants to know more about history, see this site:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/vlachs/