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History of the Greek alphabet

The history of the Greek alphabet began with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues to the present day. The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age, centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age…

Standards, Chronology of adoption & Restructuring of the Phoenician abjad

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Chronology of adoption

InscriptionsDipylon inscriptionCup of NestorDaughterAeolian Cyme
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Restructuring of the Phoenician abjad

GutturalsʼālephHēḤēthʽayin
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Later developments

UncialCursiveGreek minusculeStoudionConstantinople
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Standardization – the Ionic alphabet

Peloponnesian WarEucleidesPhoenician scriptMacedoniaAristophanes of Byzantium
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Chronology of adoption

Restructuring of the Phoenician abjad

Epichoric alphabets

Additional letters

Standardization – the Ionic alphabet

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Names of the letters

Greek numerals

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History of the Greek alphabet

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greek alphabet phoenician letters letter writing bc used century script also early consonants use vowels inscriptions ancient dialects centuries developed

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letter case influenced by printinginstance ofThis led to the adoption of writing conventions for Greek0.80text
developments in the Latin alphabetinstance ofThis led to the adoption of writing conventions for Greek0.80text

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