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Gr eek alphabet Type Alphabet Languages Greek Time period ~800 BC t o the presen t [1] Parent systems Proto- Sinaitic alphabe t Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Child systems Gothic Glagolitic Cyrillic Coptic Armenian alphabet Old Italic alphabet Latin alphabet ISO 15924 G r ek, 20 0 Direction Left-to-right Unicode alias Greek Unicode range U+0370–U+03FF (http://www.unicode.org/charts /PDF/U03 70.pdf) Greek and Cop tic, U+1F00–U+1FFF (http://www.unicode.org/charts /PDF/U1F0 0.pdf) Greek Extend ed Greek alphabet Αα Alpha Νν  Nu Ββ Beta Ξξ Xi Γγ Gamma Οο Omicron Δδ Delta Ππ Pi Εε Epsilon Ρρ Rho Ζ ζ Zeta Σσς Sigma Ηη Eta Ττ T au From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC (the 8th century BC). [2] The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omeg a. The Greek alphabet was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, from which it differs  by being the first alphabet that provides a full representation of one written symbol per sound both for vowels as well as consonants. The Greek alphabet in turn is the ancestor of numerous other European and Middle Eastern scripts that follow the same structural  principl e, among them Cyril lic and Latin. [3] The Greek alphabet reached its classi cal form around 400 BC, with some details, including the use of diacritic marks, becoming fixed only during the following centuries of t he Hellenistic and Roman  period. The s equence of letters has remained unchang ed since then up to t he present da y , although the sound values of individual letters have changed considerably due to phonolog ical changes  between ancient and modern Greek. Whil e it was orig inall y written with only a single, maj uscule form for each letter, the Greek alphabet developed a second set of lett er forms, the minuscule letters, during the Middle Ages, resulting in the modern system of uppercase and lowercase forms . In addition to being used for writing Greek, both ancient and modern, the letters of the Greek alphabet are today used as technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields. 1 Description 2 History 2.1 Letter names 2.2 Number notation 3 List of letters 3.1 Obsolete letters 3.2 Variant forms 4 Digraphs and diphthongs 5 Diacritics 6 Use of the Greek script for other languages 6.1 Antiquity 6.2 Middle Ages 6.3 Early modern 7 Derived alphabets 8 Greek in mathematics 9 Greek encodings 9.1 ISO/IEC 8859-7 Greek alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia htt p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet 1 of 12 20/04/2012 11:36 PM

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    Greek alphabet

    Type Alphabet

    Languages Greek

    Time period ~800 BC to the present[1]

    Parent

    systems

    Proto-Sinaitic alphabet

    Phoenician alphabetGreek alphabet

    Child

    systems

    Gothic

    Glagolitic

    Cyrillic

    Coptic

    Armenian alphabet

    Old Italic alphabet

    Latin alphabet

    ISO 15924 Gr ek, 200

    Direction Left-to-right

    Unicode

    alias

    Greek

    Unicoderange

    U+0370U+03FF(http://www.unicode.org/charts

    /PDF/U0370.pdf) Greek and Coptic,

    U+1F00U+1FFF

    (http://www.unicode.org/charts

    /PDF/U1F00.pdf) Greek Extended

    Greek alphabet

    Alpha Nu

    Beta Xi

    Gamma Omicron

    Delta Pi

    Epsilon Rho

    Zeta Sigma

    Eta Tau

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the

    Greek language since at least 730 BC (the 8th century BC).[2]

    The

    alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters

    ordered in sequence from alpha to omega. The Greek alphabet was

    derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, from which it differsby being the first alphabet that provides a full representation of one

    written symbol per sound both for vowels as well as consonants.

    The Greek alphabet in turn is the ancestor of numerous other

    European and Middle Eastern scripts that follow the same structural

    principle, among them Cyrillic and Latin.[3]

    The Greek alphabet reached its classical form around 400 BC, with

    some details, including the use of diacritic marks, becoming fixed

    only during the following centuries of the Hellenistic and Roman

    period. The sequence of letters has remained unchanged since then

    up to the present day, although the sound values of individualletters have changed considerably due to phonological changes

    between ancient and modern Greek. While it was originally written

    with only a single, majuscule form for each letter, the Greek

    alphabet developed a second set of letter forms, the minuscule

    letters, during the Middle Ages, resulting in the modern system of

    uppercase and lowercase forms.

    In addition to being used for writing Greek, both ancient and

    modern, the letters of the Greek alphabet are today used as

    technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics,

    science and other fields.

    1 Description

    2 History

    2.1 Letter names

    2.2 Number notation

    3 List of letters

    3.1 Obsolete letters

    3.2 Variant forms4 Digraphs and diphthongs

    5 Diacritics

    6 Use of the Greek script for other languages

    6.1 Antiquity

    6.2 Middle Ages

    6.3 Early modern

    7 Derived alphabets

    8 Greek in mathematics

    9 Greek encodings

    9.1 ISO/IEC 8859-7

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    Theta Upsilon

    Iota Phi

    Kappa Chi

    Lambda Psi

    Mu Omega

    History

    Archaic local variants

    Ligatures (, , ) Diacritics

    Numerals: (6) (90) (900)

    In other languages

    Bactrian Coptic Albanian

    Scientific symbols

    Book Category Commons

    Dipylon inscription, one of the oldest

    known samples of the use of the Greek

    alphabet, ca. 740 BC

    9.2 Greek in Unicode

    9.2.1 Combining and letter-free diacritics

    9.3 Encodings with a subset of the Greek alphabet

    10 See also

    11 References and Notes

    12 Bibliography

    13 Further reading

    14 External links

    In its classical and modern form, the Greek alphabet contains 24 letters.

    They are named, in order, as follows: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon,

    zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma,

    tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. The 24 capital letters (upper-case

    symbols) are: , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , , , , , , ,, , , . The 24 minuscule symbols (lower-case letters) of the Greek

    alphabet (in order) are: , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , , , , (),,, , , , . Before the 24-letter alphabet, three of the original Phoenicianletters had been in use before the alphabet took its classical shape: the letter(san), similar to (sigma) denoting the same phoneme /s/; the letter(qoppa), which was redundant with (kappa) for /k/; and (digamma), whosesound value was /w/. A system of diacritics on some letters was added during

    the Hellenistic period. Today the diacritics exist in two orthographic variants:

    the traditional ("polytonic") system and a simplified ("monotonic") one that

    has been in official use for Modern Greek since the 1980s.

    Main articles: History of the Greek alphabet and Archaic Greek

    alphabets

    The Greek alphabet emerged in the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BC[4] Another, unrelated writing system,

    Linear B, had been in use to write the Greek language during the earlier Mycenean period, but the two systems are

    separated from each other by a hiatus of several centuries, the so-called Greek Dark Ages. The Greeks adopted the

    alphabet from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, a member of the family of closely related West Semitic scripts. The

    most notable change made in adapting the Phoenician system to Greek was the introduction of vowel letters.

    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".[5]

    Greek initially took over all of the 22 letters of Phoenician. Five of them were reassigned to denote vowel sounds: the

    glide consonants /j/ (yodh) and /w/ (waw) were used for [i] (, iota) and [u] (, upsilon) respectively; the glottal stopconsonant // ('aleph) was used for [a] (, alpha); the pharyngeal // (ayin) was turned into [o] (, omicron); and theletter for/h/ (he) was turned into [e] (, epsilon). A doublet of waw was also borrowed as a consonant for [w] (,digamma). In addition, the Phoenician letter for the emphatic glottal // (heth) was borrowed in two differentfunctions by different dialects of Greek: as a letter for /h/ (, heta) by those dialects that had such a sound, and as anadditional vowel letter for the long // (, eta) by those dialects that lacked the consonant. Eventually, a seventhvowel letter for the long // (, omega) was introduced.

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    Main article: Greek numerals

    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 100, from 100 to 900. For this purpose, in addition to the 24 letters which by that time made

    up the standard alphabet, three of the obsolete letters were revived: wau/digamma () for 6, koppa () for 90, and arare Ionian letter for /ss/, today called sampi ( ), for 900. This system has remained in use in Greek up to the present

    day, although today it is only employed for limited purposes, similar to the way Roman numerals are used in English.

    The three extra symbols are today written as , and respectively.

    Below is a table listing the Greek letters, as well as their forms when romanized. The table also provides the equivalent

    Phoenician letter from which each Greek letter is derived. Pronunciations transcribed using the International Phonetic

    Alphabet.

    The classical pronunciation given below is the reconstructed pronunciation of Attic in the late 5th and early 4th

    century BC. Some of the letters had different pronunciations in pre-classical times or in non-Attic dialects. For details,

    see History of the Greek alphabet and Ancient Greek phonology. For details on post-classical Ancient Greek

    pronunciation, see Koine Greek phonology.

    Letter

    Corresponding

    Phoenicianletter

    Name Transliteration1 Pronunciation

    NumericvalueEnglish

    AncientGreek

    MedievalGreek

    (polytonic)

    ModernGreek

    AncientGreek

    ModernGreek

    ClassicalAncient

    Greek

    ModernGreek

    Aleph Alpha a [a] [a] [a] 1

    Beth Beta b v [b] [v] 2

    Gimel Gamma () g gh, g, y [] [], [] 3

    Daleth Delta d d, dh [d] [] 4

    He Epsilon e [e] 5

    Zayin Zeta z [zd, dz,z] (?)

    [z] 7

    Heth Eta e, i [] [i] 8

    Teth Theta th [t] [] 9

    Yodh Iota () i [i] [i] [i], [] 10

    Kaph Kappa () k [k] [k], [c] 20

    Lamedh Lambda () l [l] 30

    Mem Mu / m [m] 40

    Nun Nu / n [n] 50

    Samekh Xi x x, ks [ks] 60

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    'Ayin Omicron o [o] 70

    Pe Pi p [p] 80

    Resh Rho r, rh r [r], [r] [r] 100

    Sin Sigma s [s] 200

    Taw Tau t [t] 300

    Waw Upsilon / u, y y, v, f [()],[y()]

    [i] 400

    origin debated

    Phi ph f [p] [f] 500

    Chi ch ch, kh [k] [x], [] 600

    Psi ps [ps] 700

    'Ayin Omega o, o [] [o] 800

    For details and different transliteration systems see Romanization of Greek.1.

    Obsolete letters

    Digamma orwau () was the continuation of Phoenician waw, denoting the sound /w/. It stood in the sixthposition in the alphabet, after. It dropped out of use because the sound /w/ became mute during the archaicand classical era. It remained in use as a numeric sign denoting the number six. In this function, its shape in

    uncial and cursive writing changed to "", until in medieval Greek handwriting it was conflated with anaccidentally similar ligature sign for "". The symbol "", both in its function as a numeral continuing that ofdigamma and in its function as a ligature, is today called "stigma".

    San (), shaped like a modern M, was a continuation either of Phoenician sin or tsade (the exact relationshipbeing unclear), and was used as an alternative to sigma in writing the sound /s/ in some dialects. It was replaced

    by standard sigma during the classical period. Its position in the alphabet was after pi.

    Koppa () was the continuation of Phoenician Qoph and was used in some dialects to denote the retractedallophone of /k/ before back vowels. Like digamma, it remained in use as a numeral sign after it had become

    obsolete as an alphabetic letter. It is used for the number 90, reflecting its original position in the alphabet

    between pi and rho. In uncial and cursive handwriting its shape changed to . In its numeral function it is

    today displayed as .Sampi ( ), of unknown origin, was a short-lived addition used for writing a consonant /ts/ or /ss/ in some Ionic

    forms of Greece, and then remained in use as a numeral for 900. It may have been a continuation of san,

    although in its numeral position it did not continue the position of the latter but was placed at the end, after

    omega. In later handwriting its shape changed to and it is today displayed as . Its modern namesampiprobably refers to its shape ("()", i.e. "like a pi").

    Variant forms

    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.

    The symbol ("curled beta") is a cursive variant form of beta (). In the French tradition of Ancient Greektypography, is used word-initially, and is used word-internally.The letter epsilon can occur in two equally frequent stylistic variants, either shaped ('lunate epsilon', like a

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    semicircle with a stroke) or (similar to a reversed number 3). The symbol (U+03F5) is designated specificallyfor the lunate form, used as a technical symbol.

    The symbol ("script theta") is a cursive form of theta (), frequent in handwriting, and used with a specializedmeaning as a technical symbol.

    The symbol ("kappa symbol") is a cursive form of kappa (), used as a technical symbol.The symbol ("variant pi") is an archaic script form of pi (), also used as a technical symbol.The letter rho () can occur in different stylistic variants, with the descending tail either going straight down or

    curled to the right. The symbol (U+03F1) is designated specifically for the curled form, used as a technicalsymbol.The letter sigma, in standard orthography, has two variants: , used only at the ends of words, and , usedelsewhere. The form ("lunate sigma", resembling a Latin c) is a medieval stylistic variant that can be used inboth environments without the final/non-final distinction.

    The capital letter upsilon () can occur in different stylistic variants, with the upper strokes either straight like aLatin Y, or slightly curled. The symbol (U+03D2) is designated specifically for the curled form, used as atechnical symbol.

    The letter phi can occur in two equally frequent stylistic variants, either shaped as (a circle with a vertical

    stroke through it) or as (a curled shape open at the top). The symbol (U+03D5) is designated specificallyfor the closed form, used as a technical symbol.

    Further information: Greek orthography

    A digraph is a pair of letters used to write one sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the

    written letters in sequence. The orthography of Greek includes several digraphs, including various pairs of vowel

    letters that used to be pronounced as diphthongs but have been shortened to monophthongs in pronunciation. Many of

    these are characteristic developments of modern Greek, but some, such as (pronounced [o], then [u]) and (pronounced [e], then [i]), were already present in Classical Greek. None of them are regarded as a letter of thealphabet.

    During the Byzantine period, it became customary to write the silent iota in digraphs as an iota subscript (, , ).

    Main article: Greek diacritics

    In the polytonic orthography traditionally used for ancient Greek, vowels can carry diacritics, namely accents and

    breathings. The accents are the acute accent (), the grave accent (), and the circumflex accent ( or). In AncientGreek, these accents marked different forms of the pitch accent on a vowel. By the end of the Roman period, pitch

    accent had evolved into a stress accent, and in later Greek all of these accents marked the stressed vowel. The

    breathings are the rough breathing (), marking an /h/ sound at the beginning of a word, and the smooth breathing (),marking its absence. The letter rho (), although not a vowel, always carries a rough breathing when it begins a word.Another diacritic used in Greek is the diaeresis ( ), indicating a hiatus.

    In 1982, the old spelling system, known as polytonic, was simplified to become the monotonic system, which is now

    official in Greece. The accents have been reduced to one, the tonos, and the breathings were abolished.

    The Greek alphabet has been adopted at various times and in various places to write other languages.[6]

    For some

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    languages, additional letters were introduced.

    Antiquity

    Most of the alphabets of Asia Minor, in use c. 800-300 BC to write languages like Lydian and Phrygian, were

    the early Greek alphabet with only slight modifications as were the original Old Italic alphabets.

    Some Paleo-Balkan languages, including Thracian. For other neighboring languages or dialects, such as Ancient

    Macedonian, isolated words are preserved in Greek texts, but no continuous texts are preserved.

    Some Gaulish inscriptions (in modern France) use the Greek alphabet (c. 300 BC).The Hebrew text of the Bible was written in Greek letters in Origen's Hexapla.

    The Bactrian alphabet adds the letter Sho and was used to write the Bactrian language under the Kushan Empire

    (65-250 AD).[7]

    The Coptic alphabet adds eight letters derived from Demotic. It is still used today, mostly in Egypt, to write the

    Coptic language. Letters usually retain an uncial form different from the forms used for Greek today (compare

    with the forms of the Latin letters used in Gaelic script).

    Middle Ages

    An 8th-century Arabic fragment preserves a text in the Greek alphabet.

    An Old Ossetic inscription of the 10-12c AD found in Arxyz, the oldest known attestation of an Osseticlanguage.

    The Old Nubian language of Makuria (modern Sudan) adds three Coptic letters, two letters derived from

    Meroitic script, and a digraph of two Greek gammas used for the velar nasal sound.

    Various South Slavic dialects, similar to the modern Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, have been written in

    Greek script.[8][9][10][11]

    The modern South Slavic languages now use modified Cyrillic alphabets.

    Early modern

    Turkish spoken by Orthodox Christians (Karamanlides) was often written in Greek script, and called

    Karamanlidika.

    Tosk Albanian was often written using the Greek alphabet, starting in about 1500[12]

    . The printing press atMoschopolis published several Albanian texts in Greek script during the 18th century. It was only in 1908 that

    the Monastir conference standardized a Latin orthography for both Tosk and Gheg. Greek spelling is still

    occasionally used for the local Albanian dialects (Arvanitika) in Greece.

    Aromanian (Vlach) has been written in Greek characters. There is not yet a standardized orthography for

    Aromanian, but it appears that one based on the Romanian orthography will be adopted.

    Gagauz, a Turkic language of the northeast Balkans.

    Surguch, a Turkic language spoken by a small group of Orthodox Christians in northern Greece.

    Urum or Greek Tatar.

    The Greek alphabet gave rise to various others:[3]

    The Latin alphabet, an offshoot of an archaic western form of the Greek alphabet

    The Gothic alphabet, devised in Late Antiquity to write the Gothic language

    The Glagolitic alphabet, devised in the Middle Ages for writing Slavic languages

    The Cyrillic script, which replaced the Glagolitic alphabet shortly afterwards

    The International Phonetic Alphabet contains many Latin and Greek letters.

    It is also considered a possible ancestor of the Armenian alphabet, and had an influence on the development of the

    Georgian alphabet.

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    Main article: Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

    Greek symbols are traditionally used as names in mathematics, physics and other sciences. Many symbols have

    traditional uses, such as lower case epsilon () for an arbitrarily small positive number, lower case pi () for the ratio ofthe circumference of a circle to its diameter, capital sigma () for summation, and lower case sigma () for standarddeviation.

    For the usage in computers, a variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in

    RFC 1947.

    The two principal ones still used today are ISO/IEC 8859-7 and Unicode. ISO 8859-7 supports only the monotonic

    orthography; Unicode supports the polytonic orthography.

    ISO/IEC 8859-7

    For the range A0FF (hex) it follows the Unicode range 3703CF (see below) except that some symbols, like , ,

    etc. are used where Unicode has unused locations. Like all ISO-8859 encodings it is equal to ASCII for 007F (hex).

    Greek in Unicode

    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. However, Unicode still falls short in rendering the full

    range of Greek letter forms. Most current text rendering engines do not support diacritics well, so, though alpha with

    macron and acute can be representedas U+03B1 U+0304 U+0301, this rarely renders well: .

    There are 2 main blocks of Greek characters in Unicode. The first is "Greek and Coptic" (U+0370 to U+03FF). This

    block is based on ISO 8859-7 and is sufficient to write Modern Greek. 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 4.1,

    Coptic and Greek were disunified. Those Coptic letters with no Greek equivalents still remain in this block (U+03E2

    to U+03EF).

    To write polytonic Greek, one may use combining diacritical marks or the precomposed characters in the "Greek

    Extended" block (U+1F00 to U+1FFF).

    Greek and Coptic[1]

    Unicode chart (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf) (PDF)

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

    U+037x ;

    U+038x

    U+039x

    U+03Ax

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    U+03Bx

    U+03Cx

    U+03Dx

    U+03Ex

    U+03Fx

    Notes

    1. ^ As of Unicode version 6.1

    Greek Extended[1]

    Unicode.org chart (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf) (PDF)

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

    U+1F0x

    U+1F1x

    U+1F2x

    U+1F3x

    U+1F4x

    U+1F5x

    U+1F6x

    U+1F7x

    U+1F8x

    U+1F9x

    U+1FAx U+1FBx

    U+1FCx

    U+1FDx

    U+1FEx

    U+1FFx Notes

    1.^ As of Unicode version 6.1

    Combining and letter-free diacritics

    Combining and spacing (letter-free) diacritical marks pertaining to Greek language:

    combining spacing sample description

    U+0300 U+0060 () "varia / grave accent"

    U+0301 U+00B4, U+0384 ( ) "oxia / tonos / acute accent"

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