Definition of greek alphabet Greek alphabet

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What does greek alphabet mean?

Noun
greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
		alphabet a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
		alpha the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
		beta the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
		gamma the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet
		delta the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
		epsilon the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
		zeta the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet
		eta the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
		theta the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
		iota the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
		kappa the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet
		lambda the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull
		mu the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
		nu the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
		xi the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
		omicron the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
		pi the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
		rho the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
		sigma the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
		tau the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
		upsilon the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet
		phi the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
		khi, chi the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
		psi the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet

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greek alphabet (Noun)
The 24-letter alphabet of the modern Greek language, consisting of the following letters presented in upper case majuscule and lower case minuscule pairs.
greek alphabet (Noun)
The alphabet consisting of the above letters plus the following four obsolete letters.

greek alphabet
An alphabet that has been used to write the Greek language since about the 9th century BC.

The Greek alphabet is thought to be where all important European alphabets came from. Although the alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians around the 10th century BC, there were many changes made to make it fit the Greek language. The main change was that some of the Phoenician letters that were for sounds not used in Greek were turned into vowels. The Phoenicians had written their alphabet without any vowels, so this change made writing a lot easier to read. Another change is that some new letters were invented for sounds in Greek but not in Phoenician. At first, Greek was written from right to left, the same as Phoenician, but after the 6th century BC, it was written from left to right.

There were some differences in the early Greek alphabet depending on what part of the Greek world it was used in. The two main kinds were the eastern and western ones. But over time all Greeks started to use the same alphabet, especially after the Ionic alphabet of Miletus was officially adopted in Athens in 403 BC. A little later, the rest of Greece did the same, and by 350 BC, almost all Greeks were using the same twenty-four letter Greek alphabet. Around this time, Aristophanes of Byzantium invented the three accent marks: acute, grave, and circumflex, to mark the tone or pitch of Greek words.

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