Wednesday 2 March 2011

Characteristics of the Greek alphabet points.

Just a few points on Greek alphabet I found
-The Greek alphabet is the first alphabet in the sense that it had a different symbol to represent each of its 24 letters.
-It emerged in the 8th or 9th century BC after the fall of the Mycenaean civilisation.
-It led to the abandonment of the Linear B script descended from the linear A script, early Greek writing systems.
-Descended from the Phoenician alphabet and has influenced others such as the largely common of its era Latin.
-Its symbols are still used today in many instances: symbols in maths and science, particle names in physics, components of star names and other purposes.
-The Greek alphabet we recognise today came from the Greek dark ages.
-The biggest development from the phoenician alphabet to the Greek is the additive of vowels. It also added 3 new consonants.
-Greek used to be written right to left but later became written right to left.
-When letters were adopted from phoenician to Greek names were maintained or modified slighty to fit in with Greek phonology.
-The borrowed names had no meaning in Greek except labels for letters however later added Greek symbols did have proper Greek meanings.

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