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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Putting normal letters in between Greek ones Ask Question. According to a definition used by some modern authors, this feature makes Greek the first "alphabet" in the narrow sense, [ 3 ] as distinguished from the purely consonantal alphabets of the Semitic type, which according to this terminology are called "abjads". Greek initially took over all of the 22 letters of Phoenician.
Greek was originally written predominantly from right to left, just like Phoenician, but scribes could freely alternate between directions. For a time, a writing style with alternating right-to-left and left-to-right lines called boustrophedon , literally "ox-turning", after the manner of an ox ploughing a field was common, until in the classical period the left-to-right writing direction became the norm.
Individual letter shapes were mirrored depending on the writing direction of the current line. There were initially numerous local variants of the Greek alphabet, which differed in the use and non-use of the additional vowel and consonant symbols and several other features.
The classical letter alphabet that became the norm later was originally the local alphabet of Ionia; this was adopted by Athens in BC under archon Eucleides and in most other parts of the Greek-speaking world during the 4th century BC. When the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet, they took over not only the letter shapes and sound values, but also the names by which the sequence of the alphabet could be recited and memorized.
The Greek names of the following letters are more or less straightforward continuations of their Phoenician antecedents. In the tables below, the Greek names of all letters are given in their traditional polytonic spelling; in modern practice, like with all other words, they are usually spelled in the simplified monotonic system. In the cases of the three historical sibilant letters below, the correspondence between Phoenician and Ancient Greek is less clear, with apparent mismatches both in letter names and sound values.
The early history of these letters and the fourth sibilant letter, obsolete san has been a matter of some debate. Here too, the changes in the pronuncation of the letter names between Ancient and Modern Greek are regular. Their modern names contain adjectival qualifiers that were added during the Byzantine period, to distinguish between letters that had become confusable.
Like Latin and other alphabetic scripts, Greek originally had only a single form of each letter, without a distinction between uppercase and lowercase.
This distinction is an innovation of the modern era, drawing on different lines of development of the letter shapes in earlier handwriting.
The oldest forms of the letters in antiquity are majuscule forms. Besides the upright, straight inscriptional forms capitals found in stone carvings or incised pottery, more fluent writing styles adapted for handwriting on soft materials were also developed during antiquity.
Such handwriting has been preserved especially from papyrus manuscripts in Egypt since the Hellenistic period. Ancient handwriting developed two distinct styles: uncial writing, with carefully drawn, rounded block letters of about equal size, used as a book hand for carefully produced literary and religious manuscripts, and cursive writing, used for everyday purposes.
In the 9th and 10th century, uncial book hands were replaced with a new, more compact writing style, with letter forms partly adapted from the earlier cursive. During the Renaissance , western printers adopted the minuscule letter forms as lowercase printed typefaces, while modelling uppercase letters on the ancient inscriptional forms. The orthographic practice of using the letter case distinction for marking proper names, titles etc. The Greek alphabet was the model for various others: [ 3 ].
It is also considered a possible ancestor of the Armenian alphabet, which in turn influenced the development of the Georgian alphabet. Apart from the daughter alphabets listed above, which were adapted from Greek but developed into separate writing systems, the Greek alphabet has also been adopted at various times and in various places to write other languages.
Greek symbols are traditionally used as names in mathematics , physics and other sciences. The glyph shapes used for these letters in specialized phonetic fonts is sometimes slightly different from the conventional shapes in Greek typography proper, with glyphs typically being more upright and using serifs, to make them conform more with the typographical character of other, Latin-based letters in the phonetic alphabet.
Nevertheless, in the Unicode encoding standard, the following three phonetic symbols are considered the same characters as the corresponding Greek letters proper:. On the other hand, the following phonetic letters have Unicode representations separate from their Greek alphabetic use, either because their conventional typographic shape is too different from the original, or because they also have secondary uses as regular alphabetic characters in some Latin-based alphabets, including separate Latin uppercase letters distinct from the Greek ones.
Greek letters were also used to write numbers. In the classical Ionian system, the first nine letters of the alphabet stood for the numbers from 1 to 9, the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 10, from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters stood for the multiples of , from to This system has remained in use in Greek up to the present day, although today it is only employed for limited purposes such as enumerating chapters in a book, similar to the way Roman numerals are used in English.
To mark a letter as a numeral sign, a small stroke called keraia is added to the right of it. In North America, many college fraternities and sororities are named with combinations of Greek letters, and are hence also known as "Greek letter organizations". This naming tradition was initiated by the foundation of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in Some letters can occur in variant shapes, mostly inherited from medieval minuscule handwriting.
While their use in normal typography of Greek is purely a matter of font styles, some such variants have been given separate encodings in Unicode. For the usage in computers, a variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC ISO supports only the monotonic orthography; Unicode supports the polytonic orthography.
Unicode supports polytonic orthography well enough for ordinary continuous text in modern and ancient Greek, and even many archaic forms for epigraphy. With the use of combining characters, Unicode also supports Greek philology and dialectology and various other specialized requirements. There are 2 main blocks of Greek characters in Unicode. There are also some archaic letters and Greek-based technical symbols.
This block also supports the Coptic alphabet. Formerly most Coptic letters shared codepoints with similar-looking Greek letters; but in many scholarly works, both scripts occur, with quite different letter shapes, so as of Unicode 4.
Combining and spacing letter-free diacritical marks pertaining to Greek language :. Chat WhatsApp. Main article: Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering. Main articles: Greek and Coptic unicode block and Greek Extended. Nicholas, Nick Retrieved Cambridge: University Press. The history of college fraternities.
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