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Greek alphabet - Use of the Greek alphabet for other languages | | Greek alphabet - Use of the Greek alphabet for other languages: Encyclopedia II - Greek alphabet - Use of the Greek alphabet for other languages | | The primary use of the Greek alphabet has always been to write the Greek language and related dialects (including Ancient Macedonian). However, at various times and in various places, it has also been used to write other languages.
Early examples:
Some Narbonese Gaulish inscriptions in southern France use the Greek alphabet (c300 BC).
The Hebrew text of the Bible was written in Greek in Origen's He ...
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Greek alphabet - Use of the Greek alphabet for other languages
The primary use of the Greek alphabet has always been to write the Greek language and related dialects (including Ancient Macedonian). However, at various times and in various places, it has also been used to write other languages.
Early examples:
- Some Narbonese Gaulish inscriptions in southern France use the Greek alphabet (c300 BC).
- The Hebrew text of the Bible was written in Greek in Origen's Hexapla.
- An 8th century Arabic fragment preserves a text in Greek.
In more modern times:
- Turkish spoken by Orthodox Christians (Karamanlides) was often written in Greek script, and called "Karamanlidika".
- Tosk Albanian was often written using the Greek alphabet, starting in about 1500 (Elsie, 1991). The printing press at Moschopolis published several Albanian texts in Greek script during the 18th century. It was only in 1908 that the Monastir conference standardized a Latin orthography for both Tosk and Gheg. The Greek-based Arvanitic alphabet is now only used in Greece.
- Various South Slavic dialects, similar to the modern Macedonian language, have been preserved in Greek script. The modern Macedonian language uses a modified Cyrillic alphabet.
- Aromanian (Vlach) has been written in Greek characters. There is not yet a standardized orthography for Aromanian, but it appears that one based on the Romanian orthography will be adopted.
- Gagauz, a Turkic language of the northeast Balkans.
- Surguch, a Turkic language spoken by a small group of Orthodox Christians in northern Greece.
- Urum or Greek Tatar.
- The Coptic alphabet is the Greek alphabet augmented with several new letters.
- The Old Nubian language of Makuria used the Greek alphabet augmented with three Coptic letters and three unique letters.
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