The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
- left-to-right
- Greek
- Greek
- Egyptian hieroglyphsProto-Sinaitic alphabetPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet
A number of Greek letters, variants, digits, and other symbols are supported by the Unicode character encoding standard. Blocks. As of version 15.0 of the Unicode Standard, 518 characters in the following blocks are classified as belonging to the Greek script: Greek and Coptic: U+0370–U+03FF (117 characters)
In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora .
- 13.5 million (2012)
- Greece, Cyprus, European Union
27 de ago. de 2022 · In general, every word of more than one syllable will be stressed on one of the last three syllables, and this will be marked with an accent. Greek has two other marks used when writing Greek numbers: the numeral sign ʹ (eg Δʹ = 4) and the lower numeral sign ͵ (eg ͵Δ = 4,000) Variant letters [ edit]
Code 16Code 10ResultDescriptionU+0374Alt+884ʹGreek Numeral SignU+0375Alt+885͵Greek Lower Numeral SignU+ (0376-0379)undefinedundefinedundefinedU+037AAlt+890ͺGreek Ypogegrammeni (iota subscript)The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. [1] It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek.
- left-to-right
- Linear ALinear B
The earliest texts in Classical Greek that used the Greek alphabet, as opposed to Linear B, were formatted in a constant string of capital letters from right to left. Later, that evolved to “ boustrophedon ”, which included lines written in alternating directions.