Greek alphabet
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Time period | ~800 BC to the present[1] |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Languages | Greek, with many modifications covering many languages |
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Parent systems | Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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Child systems | Gothic Glagolitic Cyrillic Coptic Armenian alphabet Old Italic alphabet Latin alphabet |
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| ISO 15924 | Grek (200), Greek |
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The Greek alphabet (Template:Lang-el) is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol.[2] It is as such in continuous use to this day. The letters were also used to represent Greek numerals, beginning in the 2nd century BC.
The Greek alphabet is descended from the Phoenician alphabet, and is not related to Linear B or the Cypriot syllabary, earlier writing systems for Greek. It has given rise to many other alphabets used in Europe and the Middle East, including the Latin alphabet.[2] In addition to being used for writing Modern Greek, its letters are today used as symbols in mathematics and science, particle names in physics, as names of stars, in the names of fraternities and sororities, in the naming of supernumerary tropical cyclones, and for other purposes.
History
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Greek also introduced three new consonant letters, Φ ([[Phi rigin of these letters is disputed.
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Main letters
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 Phoenician letter |
Name | Transliteration1 | Pronunciation | Numeric value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Ancient Greek |
Medieval Greek (polytonic) |
ⓘ | Ancient Greek |
Modern Greek |
Classical Ancient Greek |
Modern Greek | |||
| Α α |  Aleph
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Alpha | Template:Polytonic | άλφα | a | [a] [aː] | [a] | 1 | ||
| Β β |  Beth
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Beta | Template:Polytonic | βήτα | b | v | [b] | [v] | 2 | |
| Γ γ |  Gimel
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Gamma | Template:Polytonic | γάμμα γάμα |
g | gh, g, y | [g] | [ɣ], [ʝ] | 3 | |
| Δ δ |  Daleth
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Delta | Template:Polytonic | δέλτα | d | d, dh | [d] | [ð] | 4 | |
| Ε ε |  He
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Epsilon | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | έψιλον | e | [e] | 5 | ||
| Ζ ζ |  Zayin
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Zeta | Template:Polytonic | ζήτα | z | [zd] ([[Zeta (letter)#Pronunciation|or [dz]]]) later [zː] |
[z] | 7 | ||
| Η η |  Heth
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Eta | Template:Polytonic | ήτα | e, ē | i | [ɛː] | [i] | 8 | |
| Θ θ |  Teth
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Theta | Template:Polytonic | θήτα | th | [tʰ] | [θ] | 9 | ||
| Ι ι |  Yodh
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Iota | Template:Polytonic | ιώτα γιώτα |
i | [i] [iː] | [i], [ʝ] | 10 | ||
| Κ κ |  Kaph
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Kappa | Template:Polytonic | κάππα κάπα |
k | [k] | [k], [c] | 20 | ||
| Λ λ |  Lamedh
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Lambda | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | λάμδα λάμβδα |
l | [l] | 30 | ||
| Μ μ |  Mem
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Mu | Template:Polytonic | μι μυ |
m | [m] | 40 | |||
| Ν ν |  Nun
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Nu | Template:Polytonic | νι νυ |
n | [n] | 50 | |||
| Ξ ξ |  Samekh
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Xi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | ξι | x | x, ks | [ks] | 60 | |
| Ο ο |  'Ayin
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Omicron | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | όμικρον | o | [o] | 70 | ||
| Π π |  Pe
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Pi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | πι | p | [p] | 80 | ||
| Ρ ρ |  Resh
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Rho | Template:Polytonic | ρω | r (Template:Polytonic: rh) | r | [r], [r̥] | [r] | 100 | |
| Σ σ ς |  Sin
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Sigma | Template:Polytonic | σίγμα | s | [s] | 200 | |||
| Τ τ |  Taw
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Tau | Template:Polytonic | ταυ | t | [t] | 300 | |||
| Υ υ |  Waw
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Upsilon | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | ύψιλον | u, y | y, v, f | [y] [yː] (earlier [ʉ] [ʉː]) |
[i] | 400 |
| Φ φ | origin disputed (see text) |
Phi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | φι | ph | f | [pʰ] | [f] | 500 |
| Χ χ | Chi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | χι | ch | ch, kh | [kʰ] | [x], [ç] | 600 | |
| Ψ ψ | Psi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | ψι | ps | [ps] | 700 | |||
| Ω ω | 'Ayin
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Omega | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | ωμέγα | o, ō | o | [ɔː] | [o] | 800 |
- For details and different transliteration systems see Romanization of Greek.
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 ϐ ("curled beta") is a cursive variant form of beta (β).
- The letter epsilon can occur in two equally frequent stylistic variants, either shaped ('lunate epsilon', like a semicircle with a stroke) or (similar to a reversed number 3). The symbol ϵ (U+03F5) is designated specifically for the lunate form, used as a technical symbol.
- The symbol ϑ ("script theta") is a cursive form of theta (θ), frequent in handwriting, and used with a specialized meaning as a technical symbol.
- The symbol ϰ ("kappa symbol") is a cursive form of kappa (κ), used as a technical symbol.
- The symbol ϖ ("variant pi") is an archaic script form of pi (π), also used as a technical symbol.
- The letter rho (ρ) can occur in different stylistic variants, with the descending tail either going straight down or curled to the right. The symbol ϱ (U+03F1) is designated specifically for the curled form, used as a technical symbol.
- The letter sigma, in standard orthography, has two variants: ς, used only at the ends of words, and σ, used elsewhere. The form ϲ ("lunate sigma", resembling a Latin c) is a medieval stylistic variant that can be used in both environments without the final/non-final distinction.
- The capital letter upsilon (Υ) can occur in different stylistic variants, with the upper strokes either straight like a Latin Y, or slightly curled. The symbol ϒ (U+03D2) is designated specifically for the curled form, used as a technical 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 ϕ (U+03D5) is designated specifically for the closed form, used as a technical symbol.
Obsolete letters
The following letters are not part of the standard Greek alphabet, but were in use in pre-classical times in certain dialects. The letters digamma, san, qoppa, and sampi were also used in Greek numerals.
| Letter | Corresponding Phoenician letter |
Name | Transliteration | Pronunciation | Numeric value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Early Greek |
Later Greek (polytonic) | |||||
| Ϝ ϝ Ͷ ͷ (alternate) |
Waw
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Digamma | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | w | [w] | 6 |
| Ϻ ϻ |  Tsade (position) Sin (name)
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San | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | s | [s] | |
| Ϟ ϟ Ϙ ϙ (alternate) |
 Qoph
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Qoppa | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | q | [q] | 90 |
| Ͳ ͳ Ϡ ϡ (alternate) |
Origin disputed, possibly Tsade
|
Sampi | Template:Polytonic | Template:Polytonic | ss | probably affricate, but exact value debated; [sː], [ks], [ts] are proposed |
900 |
- Digamma disappeared from the alphabet because the sound it notated, the voiced labial-velar approximant [w], had disappeared from the Ionic dialect and most of the others. It remained in use as a numeric sign denoting the number six. In this function, it was later conflated in medieval Greek handwriting with the ligature sign stigma (ϛ), which had a similar shape in its lower case form.
- Sampi (also called disigma) notated a geminated affricate that later evolved to Template:Polytonic (probably [sː]) in most dialects, and Template:Polytonic (probably [tː]) in Attic. Its exact value is heavily discussed, but [ts] is often proposed. Its modern name is derived from its shape: (ω)σαν πι = like (the letter) pi.[4]
The order of the letters up to Τ follows that in the Phoenician or Hebrew alphabet.
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 (῀). In Ancient Greek, 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 the absence of an /h/ sound at the beginning of a word. The letter rho (ρ), 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.
Ligatures
Scribes made use of a number of ligatures to save space and time, in Greek as in other languages. Early Greek typefaces such as Claude Garamond's Les Grecs du Roi included a large number of ligatures, but modern typography uses none of them, except occasionally the Ȣ ligature for ου — resembling a V above an O; some modern alphabets based on the Latin alphabet use this as a letter, Ou. In printed 17th-century English works, there sometimes occurs a ligature of Ο with ς (a small sigma inside a capital omicron) for a terminal ος. Other ligatures include ϗ for καί, (equivalent to an ampersand) and stigma Template:Polytonic for στ, also used as noted above to replace digamma as a number 6.
Digraphs and diphthongs
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 were already present in Classical Greek. None of them is regarded as a letter of the alphabet.
During the Byzantine period, it became customary to write the silent iota in digraphs as an iota subscript (Template:Polytonic).
Use of the Greek alphabet for other languages
The primary use of the Greek alphabet has always been to write the Greek language. However, at various times and in various places, it has also been used to write other languages.[5]
Early examples
- 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 Narbonese Gaulish inscriptions in southern France use the Greek alphabet (c. 300 BC).
- The Hebrew text of the Bible was written in Greek letters in Origen's Hexapla.
- An 8th century Arabic fragment preserves a text in the Greek alphabet.
- An Old Ossetic inscription of the 10-12c CE found in Arxyz, the oldest known attestation of an Ossetic language.
With additional letters
Several alphabets consist of the Greek alphabet supplemented with a few additional letters:
- The Bactrian alphabet adds the letter Sho and was used to write the Bactrian language under the Kushan Empire (AD 65-250).[6]
- 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).
- 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 ng.
In more modern times
- Coptic (see above).
- 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 (Elsie, 1991). The printing press at Moschopolis 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. The Greek-based Arvanitic alphabet is now only used in Greece.
- Various South Slavic dialects, similar to the modern Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, have been written in Greek script. The modern South Slavic languages now use modified Cyrillic alphabets.[7]
- 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.
Derived alphabets
The Greek alphabet gave rise to various others:[2]
- The Latin alphabet, an offshoot of the 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 alphabet, which replaced the Glagolitic alphabet shortly afterwards;
It is also considered a possible ancestor of the Armenian alphabet, and had an influence on the development of the Georgian alphabet.
Greek in mathematics
Greek symbols are traditionally used as names in mathematics, physics and other sciences. When combined with Latin characters, the Latin characters usually indicate variables while the Greek ones indicate parameters. Many symbols have traditional meanings, such as epsilon for `a small number, which move towards the infinitesimal', capital sigma for `sum' and lower case sigma for standard deviation.
Greek encodings
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 A0-FF (hex) it follows the Unicode range 370-3CF (see below) except that some symbols, like ©, ½, § etc are used where Unicode has unused locations. Like all ISO-8859 encodings it is equal to ASCII for 00-7F (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, most current text rendering engines do not support combining characters well, so, though alpha with macron and acute can be represented as U+03B1 U+0304 U+0301, this rarely renders well: Template:Polytonic.[8]
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.
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
Greek Extended (precomposed polytonic Greek)
Combining and letter-free diacritics
Combining and spacing (letter-free) diacritical marks pertaining to Greek language:
| combining | spacing | sample | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| U+0300 | U+0060 | ( Template:Polytonic ) | "varia / grave accent" |
| U+0301 | U+00B4, U+0384 | ( Template:Polytonic ) | "oxia / tonos / acute accent" |
| U+0304 | U+00AF | ( ̄ ) | "macron" |
| U+0306 | U+02D8 | ( ̆ ) | "vrachy / breve" |
| U+0308 | U+00A8 | ( ̈ ) | "dialytika / diaeresis" |
| U+0313 | ( ̓ ) | "psili / comma above" (spiritus lenis) | |
| U+0314 | ( ̔ ) | "dasia / reversed comma above" (spiritus asper) | |
| U+0342 | ( ͂ ) | "perispomeni" (circumflex) | |
| U+0343 | ( ̓ ) | "koronis" (= U+0313) | |
| U+0344 | U+0385 | ( ̈́ ) | "dialytika tonos" (deprecated, = U+0308 U+0301) |
| U+0345 | U+037A | ( ͅ ) | "ypogegrammeni / iota subscript". |
See also
- Ancient Greek phonology
- Arvanitic alphabet
- Attic numerals, a system of acrophonic representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet
- Cumae alphabet
- English pronunciation of Greek letters
- Greek Font Society
- Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering
- Greeklish
- Greek numerals, a system of sequential representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet
- List of Greek words with English derivatives
- List of XML and HTML character entity references
- Phoenician alphabet
- Romanization of Greek
- Category:Hellenic scripts
Bibliography
- Elsie, Robert (1991). "Albanian Literature in Greek Script: the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Tradition in Albanian Writing" (PDF 0.0 bytes). Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 15 (20).
- Humez, Alexander (1981). Alpha to omega: the life & times of the Greek alphabet. Godine. ISBN 0-87923-377-X.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) — A popular history, more about Greek roots in English than about the alphabet itself. - Jeffery, Lilian Hamilton (1961). The local scripts of archaic Greece: a study of the origin of the Greek alphabet and its development from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-814061-4.
- Macrakis, Michael S. (ed.) (1996). Greek letters: from tablets to pixels: proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Greek Font Society. Oak Knoll. ISBN 1-884718-27-2.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) — Includes papers on history, typography, and character coding by Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker, John A. Lane, Kyle McCarter, Jerôme Peignot, Pierre MacKay, Silvio Levy, et al. - Hansen and Quinn (1992 - especially noted for an excellent discussion on traditional accents and breathings, as well as verbal formation). Greek - An Intensive Course, Second Revised Edition. Fordham University Press.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|year=(help)CS1 maint: year (link) - Powell, Barry B. (1991). Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) — discusses dating, early inscriptions, and ties to origin of texts of Homer. ISBN 052158907X - Macrakis, Stavros M. (1996). Character codes for Greek: Problems and modern solutions. — Includes discussion of the Greek alphabet used for languages other than Greek.
- C. J. Ruijgh (1998) Sur la date de la création de l’alphabet grec. Mnemosyne, 51, 658–687
Notes
- ^ Pierre Swiggers, Transmission of the Phoenician Script to the West, in Daniels and Bright, The World's Writing Systems, 1996
- ^ a b c Coulmas, Florian (1996). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-631-21481-X.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ see S. Macrakis, 1996 for bibliography
- ^ New Findings in Ancient Afghanistan — the Bactrian documents discovered from the Northern Hindu-Kush, lecture by Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams (University of London)
- ^ "Dva balgarski rakopisa s gracko pismo", Balgarski starini 6, 1920; André Mazon and André Vaillant, L'Evangelaire de Kulakia, un parler slave de Bas-Vardar, Bibliothèque d'études balkaniques 6, 1938; Jürgen Kristophson, "Das Lexicon Tetraglosson des Daniil Moschopolitis", Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 9:11; Max Demeter Peyfuss, Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731-1769: Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung in Erzbistum Achrida, Wiener Archiv für Geschichte des Slawentums und Osteuropas 13, 1989.
- ^ For extended discussion of problematic Greek letter forms in Unicode see Greek Unicode Issues.
External links
- Unicode 5.1 Greek range
- Examples of Greek handwriting
- Greek Unicode Issues
- Unicode FAQ - Greek Language and Script
- Unicode 5.1 alphabetic test for Greek Unicode range
- Unicode 5.1 numeric test for Greek Unicode range
- Unicode 5.1 test for all Greek-related Unicode ranges
- Greek Alphabet: a Flash tutorial
Typography
- Collection of free fonts: greekfontsociety.gr
- Template:El icon Collection of free truetype polytonic fonts: enoriaka.gr