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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
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.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org Griekse alfabet; Usage on azb.wikipedia.org یونان الیفباسی; Usage on cdo.wikipedia.org
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In addition, the red alphabet also introduced letters for the aspirates, Φ = /pʰ/ and Ψ = /kʰ/. Note that the use of Χ in the "red" set corresponds to the letter "X" in Latin, while it differs from the later standard Greek alphabet, where Χ stands for /kʰ/, and Ψ stands for /ps/. Only Φ for /pʰ/ is common to all non-green alphabets.
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Greek letters are frequently used for scientific and symbolic purposes. This category is intended as a list of the Greek letters; details on their usage can be found in their individual articles. This category is intended as a list of the Greek letters; details on their usage can be found in their individual articles.