Greek orthographyThe orthography of the modern Greek language was standardised in 1976 and the diacritics were simplified in 1982. There are relatively few differences between the orthography of Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of several centuries (the Greek Dark Ages) between the time Mycenaean stopped being written and the time when the Greek alphabet came into use.Greek alphabetThe 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.
HetaHeta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/. The letter Η had been adopted by Greek from the Phoenician letter heth () originally with this consonantal sound value, and hēta was its original name. The Italic alphabets, and ultimately Latin, adopted the letter H from this Greek usage.Latin alphabetAlphabet of the Latin language The Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin. Its expansion into the core 26-letter modern inventory (standardised today as the ISO basic Latin alphabet, which is utilized by Modern Latin), was motivated by vernacular languages.
Greek ligaturesHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationGreek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing.
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AlphabetAn alphabet is a writing system that uses a standard set of symbols called graphemes – more commonly known as letters – to more or less represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, these graphemes largely correspond to phonemes, which are the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.American Library AssociationThe American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. The organization is the oldest and largest library association in the world.
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