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Since many natural languages use more than the 26 letters of the [[Latin alphabet]], [[Morse code for non-Latin alphabets|Morse alphabets]] have been developed for those languages, largely by transliteration of existing codes.<ref name=War-1943-TM-11-459/>
To increase the efficiency of transmission, Morse code was originally designed so that the duration of each symbol is approximately [[Entropy encoding|inverse to the frequency of occurrence]] of the character that it represents in text of the English language. Thus the most common letter in English, the letter '''{{sc|E}}''', has the shortest code – a single ''dit''. Because the Morse code elements are specified by proportion rather than specific time durations, the code is usually transmitted at the highest rate that the receiver is capable of decoding. Morse code transmission rate (''speed'') is specified in ''groups per minute'', commonly referred to as ''words per minute''.{{efn|The time needed to transmit the word '''{{sc|paris}}''' is typically used as the standard "word" for calculating the "word per minute" rate. Other standard "words" such as '''{{sc|codex}}''' are also used.<ref name=Army-1968-TM-11-459/>}}<ref name=Army-1968-TM-11-459/
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