What is the Greek Alphabet?

Gnomon

The Greek Alphabet is a series of 24 letters, used to write the Greek language, both ancient and modern. Many Greek letters look the same as Roman letters, the ones we are familiar with, for example A B M, but others look completely different: a circle with a horizontal line through it, a letter like an F with no lower cross bar, a triangle and so on. Greek letters are also used in Mathematics, in the names of American fraternities and various other places. Jan 30 03, 12:56 PM

Debs	I know what it is but i would like to find out all the letters like Alpha Beta? Jan 30 03, 12:59 PM

Senior Moments

Thgis site will not support the characters so you will have to try a site such as http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html Jan 30 03, 1:06 PM

Gnomon

Or you could try an article I wrote about the Greek Alphabet at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A216073 Jan 30 03, 1:10 PM

Jimmy

It should also be noted that it is the base for the cyrillic alphabet used by Russia and Bulgaria Jan 30 03, 1:33 PM

bpykh

The Greek alphabet is adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet with an important twist the use of some letters as vowels. The Greek had a more ancient alphabet Linear A and Linear B. Till this day Linear A remains un-interpreted. Jan 31 03, 4:55 PM

tinayak

Alpha, Beta, Gama, Delta, Epsilon, Zita, Eta, Theta, Yiota, Kapa, Lamda, Mi, Ni, Ksi, Omikron, Pi, Ro, Sigma, Taf, Ypsilon, Phi, Hee, Psi, Omega. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet [Link added -- Zb] Mar 06 09, 12:14 PM

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