Greek alphabet

The Greek language is written in the Greek alphabet, developed in classical times (ca 9th century B.C.) and passed down to the present. It is the world's oldest alphabet in use today. In ancient Greece its letters were also used to represent numbers, called Greek numerals, analogous to Roman numerals. Besides writing modern Greek, today its letters are used as mathematical symbols, as names of stars and fraternities and sororities, and for other purposes, such as names of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, should the given name list be used up (although as of October, 2005 this has never happened).

Greek in Unicode

There are 2 main blocks of Greek characters in Unicode.

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The first is "Greek and Coptic" (U+0370 — U+03FF).

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This block is based on ISO 8859-7 and is sufficient to write Modern Greek.

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There are also some archaic letters and Greek-based technical symbols.

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This block also supports the Coptic language. Formerly most Coptic letters shared codepoints with similar-looking Greek letters; but in many scholarly works, both scripts occur, with quite different letter shapes, so as of

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Unicode 4.1, Coptic and Greek were disunified. Those Coptic letters with

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no Greek equivalents still remain in this block.

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To write polytonic Greek (Old Greek or Katharevousa), one may use combining diacritical marks. However, Unicode also includes a full set of precomposed characters in the "Greek Extended" block (U+1F00 – U+1FFF).

Related Topics:
Combining diacritical mark - Unicode

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Greek and Coptic

Greek Extended (precomposed polytonic Greek)

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Combining and letter-free diacritics

Combining and spacing (letter-free) diacritical marks pertaining to Greek language are:

Related Topics:
Combining - Diacritical mark - Greek language

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