GREEK ALPHABET

Brief History

The Greek Alphabet is the writing system

developed in Greece.
The Greeks were the first Europeans to
learn to write with an alphabet.
From them alphabetic writing spread to the
rest of Europe, eventually leading down to
all modern European alphabets.
The Greeks actually adopted the
Phoenician alphabet most likely during the
late 9th century.

Greek and Phonetic

Alphabet

Greek and Phonetic

Alphabet
Unlike the Greek Alphabet, The Phoenician
only had letters for consonants
When the Greeks adopted the Phonetic
Alphabet, they found letters that represented
sounds, which were actually not found in Greek
So they made use of the letters and created
vowels. For example, the Phoenician
letter'aleph(which stood for a glottal stop)
became the Greek letteralpha(which stands
for [a] sound).

LEARNING THE
GREEK ALPHABET

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1.

Alpha (Al-fa) ex. A- from apple

2.

Beta (Ve-ta)

3.

Gamma (Guh-mah)

4.

Delta (Thel-ta) ex. Th- from

The

5.

Epsilon (Ehp-si-lon) ex. E-from

elephant

Zeta (Zi-ta)

Eta (Eat-ta) ex. E-from the

word eat
Theta (Thi-ta) ex. Th- from the
word thick
Iota (Yo-ta)

Kappa (Kap-pa)

Lambda (lam-the/lamb-va)
Mu (Me/Mi)

 Nu (Ni)
Ksi (Xi)
Omicron (O-mikron)
Pi (Pee)
Rho (Row)
Sigma (Sig-ma) = emphasis
on I

 Tau (Tauf)
Upsilon (ip-silon)
Phi (Fee)
Chi (khee)
Psi (P-see) = pronounce the P
Omega (ome-kha)