Ancient Greek alphabet - the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts - Paperweight - pure bronze statue
Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 6,5 cm - 2,56 inches
Width: 7,5 cm - 2,95 inches
Weight: 290 g
The
Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late
ninth or early eighth century BC. It is derived from the earlier
Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script in history to
have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and
early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local
variants, but, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Euclidean
alphabet, with twenty-four letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had
become standard and it is this version that is still used to write Greek
today. These twenty-four letters (each in uppercase and lowercase
forms) are: Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν
ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ/ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, and Ω ω.
The
Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Like
Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of each
letter; it developed the letter case distinction between uppercase and
lowercase in parallel with Latin during the modern era. Sound values and
conventional transcriptions for some of the letters differ between
Ancient and Modern Greek usage, because the pronunciation of Greek has
changed significantly between the fifth century BC and today. Modern and
Ancient Greek also use different diacritics. Apart from its use in
writing the Greek language, in both its ancient and its modern forms,
the Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols
and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields.
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