the Greek alphabet

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• 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 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

• History of the Latin alphabet — The Latin alphabet originated in the 7th century BC, undergoing a history of 2,500 years before emerging as one of the dominant writing systems in use today.OriginsIt is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek… …   Wikipedia

• History of the Arabic alphabet — The history of the Arabic alphabet shows that this abjad has changed since it arose. It is thought that the Arabic alphabet is a derivative of the Nabataean variation (or perhaps the Syriac variation) of the Aramaic alphabet, which descended from …   Wikipedia

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

• History of the Hebrew alphabet — The History of the Hebrew alphabet dates back several thousand years.HistoryAccording to contemporary scholars, the original Hebrew script developed alongside others in the region during the course of the late second and first millennia BCE; it… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• 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 orthography — The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of… …   Wikipedia