Greek
16th century New Testament page from the Gospel of John
By Robert Estienne (1503–1559). - Tés Kainés Diathékés hapanta. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1550 [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11771092
Unicode Chart
Maps
Https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Grek
Data
ISO 15924 | Grec 200 |
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Type | Alphabet |
Family | Phoenician |
Direction | LtR |
Diacritics | Not In Modern Greek, But Yes In Alexandrian Greek |
Contextual Forms | No |
Capitals Used | Yes |
Glyphs | 24 |
Earliest Location | The island of Crete |
Earliest Date | 2000 BCE |
Latest Date | Present |
Ancestry |
Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 163-192 | Blackwell Publishing |
Ritner, Robert | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, The Greek Alphabet, 271-280 | Oxford University Press |
Woodard, Roger | 2008 | The Ancient Languages of Europe, Attic Greek, 14-49 | Cambridge University Press |