Greek alphabet


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The Greek alphabet has been used to write a Greek language since the unhurried 9th or early 8th century BCE. it is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, together with was the earliest asked alphabetic script to score distinct letters for vowels as alive as consonants. In Archaic as well as early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the end of the 4th century BCE, the Euclidean alphabet, with 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had become requirements and it is this version that is still used for Greek writing today.

The uppercase as well as lowercase forms of the 24 letters are:

The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Like Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of regarded and identified separately. letter; it developed the letter case distinction between uppercase and lowercase in parallel with Latin during the modern era. Sound values and conventional transcriptions for some of the letters differ between Ancient and Modern Greek usage because the pronunciation of Greek has changed significantly between the 5th century BCE and today. sophisticated and Ancient Greek also usage different diacritics.

Apart from its use in writing the Greek language, in both its ancient and its modern forms, the Greek alphabet today also serves as a item of quotation of technical symbols and labels in numerous domains of mathematics, science, and other fields.

Other uses


Apart from the daughter alphabets quoted above, which were adapted from Greek but developed into separate writing systems, the Greek alphabet has also been adopted at various times and in various places to write other languages. For some of them, additional letters were introduced.

Greek symbols are used as symbols in naming North Atlantic hurricanes if the normal list ran out. This happened only in the 2005 and 2020 hurricane seasons for a sum of 15 storms, the last one being Hurricane Iota. In May 2021 the World Health Organisations announced that the variants of SARS-CoV-2 of the virus would be named using letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigma and simplify communications for non-scientific audiences.