Latin Spelling Question?

Question

Deus hominum contribulatorum

I'm getting a tattoo of this and I need to know if U's are drawn as V's in Latin. Are any other letters drawn differently?

anyone?

Answer 1

First of, in Classic Latin, all letters were Upper Case - Lower Case did not show up for quite a while.

The Romans made no distinction between 'V' and 'U' in writing. Your quote would be:

DEVS HOMINVM CONTRIBVLATORVM.

There is another difference, but it does not come into play in your tattoo - Latin did not use 'J' - they used 'I', so 'JESUS' in written classical Latin is 'IESVS'

Answer 2

God of the Broken (people)

It is correct that Romans wrote V instead of U but for better readability U would be OK as well it was introduced to the latin alphabet in the 15th century (source Wikipedia).
The letter W is called "double u" in English while in French it is called "double v"