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• Greek alphabet — Type Alphabet …   Wikipedia

• Greek alphabet — Writing system developed in Greece с 1000 BC, the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets. Derived from the North Semitic alphabet via that of the Phoenicians, it modified an all consonant alphabet to represent vowels.… …   Universalium

• Greek alphabet — noun the alphabet used by ancient Greeks • Hypernyms: ↑alphabet • Member Meronyms: ↑alpha, ↑beta, ↑gamma, ↑delta, ↑epsilon, ↑zeta, ↑eta, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Greek alphabet — noun The 24 letter alphabet of the modern Greek language, consisting of the following letters presented in upper case (majuscule) and lower case (minuscule) pairs: Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ… …   Wiktionary

• History of the Greek alphabet — The History of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms and continues to the present day. This article concentrates on the early period, before the codification of the now standard Greek alphabet. The Phoenician… …   Wikipedia

• Greek language — Greek Ελληνικά Ellīniká Pronunciation [eliniˈka] Spoken in Greece, Cyprus …   Wikipedia

• Greek Catholics in America — • Includes the history and statistics Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Greek Catholics in America     Greek Catholics in America      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering — Greek alphabet Αα Alpha Νν Nu Ββ Beta …   Wikipedia

• Greek literature — refers to those writings autochthonic to the areas of Greek influence, typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects, throughout the whole period in which the Greek speaking peoples have existed.Ancient Greek literature (Before AD …   Wikipedia

• Greek euro coins — feature a unique design for each of the eight coins. They were all designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos with the minor coins depicting Greek ships, the middle ones portraying famous Greeks and the two large denominations showing images of Greek… …   Wikipedia

• alphabet — ► NOUN ▪ an ordered set of letters or symbols used to represent the basic speech sounds of a language. DERIVATIVES alphabetize (also alphabetise) verb. ORIGIN from Greek alpha and b ta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet …   English terms dictionary