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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [3] [4] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [5] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [6]
From the Greek letter Ξ ξ. 0470: Ѱ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PSI 0471: ѱ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PSI From the Greek letter Ψ ψ. 0472: Ѳ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA 0473: ѳ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER FITA From the Greek letter Θ θ. 0474: Ѵ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IZHITSA 0475: ѵ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IZHITSA From the Greek letter Υ υ ...
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4] Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician alphabet, with the exception of the letter Samekh, whose Greek counterpart Xi (Ξ) was used only in a sub-group of Greek alphabets, and with the common addition of Upsilon (Υ) for the vowel /u, ū/.
This is a list of letters of the Greek alphabet. The definition of a Greek letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of "Greek" and the general category of "Letter". An overview of the distribution of Greek letters is given in Greek script in Unicode.
Greek and Coptic Unicode Character Block (UCB) Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek.It was originally also used for writing Coptic, [1] using the similar Greek letters in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions.
Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the terminus ad quem for the introduction of the Greek language to Greece.
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