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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the…

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Child systems
Anatolian · Armenian · Caucasian Albanian · Coptic · Cyrillic
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Greek
Official script
Greece · Cyprus · European Union
Parent systems
Proto-Sinaitic alphabetPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet · Phoenician alphabetGreek alphabet · Greek alphabet
Period
c. 800 BC – present

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Greek alphabet

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Edges251
Triples182
Avg. degree1.99
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Greek alphabet

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related to Derived scripts · 36
Greek alphabet → Anatolian, Asia Minor, BC, Carian, Coptic, Demotic, Egypt, Egyptian Christians, Etruscan, First Bulgarian Empire, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hellenization, Iron Age, It, Italy, Latin, Letters
related to Early modern · 32
Greek alphabet → Albanian, Arvanitika, Balkans, Cyrillic, Gagauz, Gheg, Giovan Giorgio Trissino, Greece, Greek, Greek Tatar, In, It, Italian, Jewish, Judaeo-Spanish, Karamanlides, Karamanlidika, Ladino, Latin, Latin Gagauz
related to Antiquity · 22
Greek alphabet → AD, Afghanistan, Ancient Macedonian, Chastana, Derived, During, For, France, Gaulish, Greek, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Greek, Iranian, It, Kushan Empire, Nahapana, Paleo-Balkan, Roman, The Bactrian, The Messapic
related to Origins · 21
Greek alphabet → Acesander, BC, Dipylon, During, Greek, Greek Dark Ages, However, Inscription, It, Linear, Mycenaean, Mycenaean Greek, Nestor, Phoenician, Semitic, The, The Greeks, This, West Semitic, When
related to Archaic variants · 19
Greek alphabet → Adolf Kirchhoff, Alphabets, Athenian, Athens, BC, Epichoric, Euboia, Geschichte, Greek, In, Latin, Old Attic, Phoenician, Some, Studien, The, There, These, West
related to In mathematics and science · 12
Greek alphabet → Alpha, For, Greek, In May, Iota, Many, North Atlantic, SARS-CoV-2, This, World Health Organization, World Meteorological Organization, Zeta
Child systems · 9
Greek alphabet → Anatolian, Armenian, Caucasian Albanian, Coptic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Old Italic (most notably Etruscan) and thus Latin and Runic
related to Sound values · 8
Greek alphabet → Among, Ancient, Ancient Greek, For, Greek, In, Modern Greek, The
Official script · 3
Greek alphabet → Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Parent systems · 3
Greek alphabet → Greek alphabet, Phoenician alphabetGreek alphabet, Proto-Sinaitic alphabetPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet

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greek alphabet letters used letter modern ancient form also language script use bc sound writing century unicode latin vowel names

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Greek alphabetChild systemsAnatolian1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsArmenian1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsCaucasian Albanian1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsCoptic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsCyrillic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsGeorgian1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsGlagolitic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsGothic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetChild systemsOld Italic (most notably Etruscan) and thus Latin and Runic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetDirectionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
Greek alphabetISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Grek (200), ​Greek1.00infobox
Greek alphabetLanguagesGreek1.00infobox
Greek alphabetOfficial scriptGreece1.00infobox
Greek alphabetOfficial scriptCyprus1.00infobox
Greek alphabetOfficial scriptEuropean Union1.00infobox
Greek alphabetParent systemsProto-Sinaitic alphabetPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet1.00infobox
Greek alphabetParent systemsPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet1.00infobox
Greek alphabetParent systemsGreek alphabet1.00infobox
Greek alphabetPeriodc. 800 BC – present1.00infobox
Greek alphabetScript typeAlphabet1.00infobox
Greek alphabetUnicode aliasGreek1.00infobox
Greek alphabetUnicode rangeU+0370–U+03FF Greek and Coptic1.00infobox
Greek alphabetUnicode rangeU+1F00–U+1FFF Greek Extended1.00infobox
Greek alphabetis aancestor of several scripts0.90text

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