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).

See also

• Arvanitic alphabet
• Greeklish
• Polytonic orthography
• Monotonic orthography
• List of Greek words with English derivatives
• Greek letters used in mathematics
• Transliteration of Greek into English
• Greek numerals, a system of representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet
• List of XML and HTML character entity references