Greek alphabet


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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the unhurried 9th or early 8th century BCE. this is a derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest requested alphabetic script to cause 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 standards and this is the this representation that is still used for Greek writing today.

The uppercase and 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 gain of used to refer to every one of two or more people or things 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. innovative and Ancient Greek also use 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 credit of technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science, and other fields.

Other uses


Apart from the daughter alphabets talked 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 whether the normal list ran out. This happened only in the 2005 and 2020 hurricane seasons for a statement 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.