A variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947 "Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages". The two principal ones still used today are ISO/IEC 8859-7 and Unicode. ISO 8859-7 supports only monotonic orthography; Unicode supports polytonic orthography. Greek alphabet - Greek in Unicode. Unicode supports polytonic orthography well enough for ordinary continuous text in modern and ancient Greek, and even many archaic forms for epigraphy. With the ...

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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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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 4th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyril ...

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Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained wide usage as the formal language of the Roman Empire. An inflectional and synthetic language, Latin relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek, remains the most widely-used alphabet in the world. Although now an extinct language with very few fluent speakers, Latin has had a major influence on many languages that are st ...

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Bases Base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 36, 60, 64 Cyrillic numerals was a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples. The system was used in Russia as late as the 1700s when Peter the Great replaced it with the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The system was quasi-decimal, based on the Ionian numeral system and written with the corresponding graphemes of the Cyrillic alphabet. A separate letter was assigne ...

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An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logograms, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. The word "alphabet" itself comes from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most o ...

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Qoph is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, and and Arabic ق in abjadi order. It represents a hard Q sound at the back of the throat, and became over time the letter Q in the Latin alphabet, and the letter Qoppa in certain early varieties of the Greek alphabet. Other related archivesArabic, Aramaic, Greek alphabet, Hebrew, Latin alphabe

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T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is tee. Tâw was the last letter of the Western Semitic alphabet — and of the Hebrew alphabet. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), and Old Italic alphabet and Latin T was IPA /t/. T - Alternative representations. Tango represents the letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter T is Da ...

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Resh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Rho (Ρ), Latin R, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. Other related archivesAramaic, Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, R, Rho, Semitic

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History · Adaptations Phonology · Transliteration Diacritics · Writing of the hamza Numerals · Numeration Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 4th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC ...

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• Arabic alphabet - Presentation of the alphabet
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• Arabic alphabet - Hamza
• Arabic alphabet - Diacritics
• Arabic alphabet - Numerals
• Arabic alphabet - History
• Arabic alphabet - Arabic alphabets of other languages
• Arabic alphabet - Current uses of the alphabet for other languages
• Arabic alphabet - Former uses of the alphabet for other languages
• Arabic alphabet - Computers and the Arabic alphabet
• Arabic alphabet - Arabic keyboard layout

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Upsilon (upper case Υ, lower case υ) is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw. In early Greek it was pronounced like "continental" u or English oo, IPA [u] . In Classical Greek, it was pronounced like French u or German ü, IPA [y] — a sound that i ...

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Ve (В, в) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound [v]. It looks exactly as Latin letter B but is pronounced differently. This letter and б are derived from Greek beta (Β, β), which was, evidently, already pronounced [v] in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created. The old name for вIncluding:

• Ve Cyrillic - Code positions

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Zayin or Zain is the seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (Ζ), Latin Z, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. In modern Hebrew, zayin, as well as being the letter, is also slang for penis. Other related archivesAramaic, Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, Semitic, Z, Zeta, penis

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I (І, і) (also called decimal I, or dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. It represents the vowel sound [i], and is the equivalent of the Russian и. It is derived from the Greek letter iota (Ι, ι, pronounced [i]). In the early Cyrillic alphabet there was little or no distinction between the letters и (izhe) and і (i), descended from the Greek ...

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Beta (upper case Β, lower case β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Beth . In Modern Greek, it is pronounced [v], but in Ancient Greek, it was pronounced [b]. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 2. Beta should not be confused with esszet (ß), a similar-looking ...

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‘Áyin or Ayin is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Omicron (Ο), and hence the Latin O, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. ‘Áyin, like all Phoenician letters, was a consonant, represented in transliteration by the ‘ at the beginning of the word ‘Áyin. However, the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters that are historical ...

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Phi (upper case Φ, lower case φ or φ) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. It is pronounced fee by modern Greeks, or fie (depending on context and, often, personal inclination), representing the phoneme 'f'. In Ancient Greek it represented a strongly aspirated 'p'. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 500. The lower-case letter φ (or often its variant, » Phi letter: Encyclopedia - Phi letter

Ancient Greek refers to the stage in the history of the Greek language corresponding to Classical Antiquity, which normally applies to two periods of Greek history: Archaic and Classical Greece. The Ancient era of Greek history normally includes also the Hellenistic (post-Classic) age; however, that period formally composes its own stage in the Greek Language known as Hellenistic Greek. For information on the Greek language prior to the creation of the Greek alphabet, see articles Mycenaean Greek and Proto-Greek. ...

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• Ancient Greek - Compensatory lengthening
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• Ancient Greek - Grammatical forms
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• Ancient Greek - Alpha Declension
• Ancient Greek - Omicron Declension
• Ancient Greek - The Article
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Beth or Bet is the second letter of many Semetic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Beta, Latin B, the Cyrillic equivalent, the Paleo-Hebrew equivalent, and the Aramaic equivalent, which gave rise to the Hebrew equivalent. Other related archivesAramaic, B, Beta, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, Semetic alphabets, letter

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