Others resemble their lower case Greek equivalents: Θ, Π, Ρ, Φ, Χ, Ψ. Two of these (Ρ, and Χ) should be carefully distinguished from the English letters that look like them. Ρ is the upper case of ρ, not p. Χ is the upper case of χ, not x. You should concentrate on the following upper caseletters: Γ, Δ, Η, Λ, Ξ, Σ, Υ, and Ω.
Among consonant letters, all letters that denoted voiced plosive consonants ( /b, d, g/) and aspirated plosives ( /pʰ, tʰ, kʰ/) in Ancient Greek stand for corresponding fricative sounds in Modern Greek. The correspondences are as follows:
Greek alphabet is a writing system or script that was developed in Greece in about the 8th century BC. Greek letters are mostly used to represent the functions in mathematics and science. The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BC.
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Another diacritic is a comma, usually above initial vowels. This signaled whether or not the sound of the letter 'H' was present. It is not available in the English standard character-set. If this comma-like diacritic above the vowel is reversed, it indicates the presence of an /h/ sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho. Thus, the Greek name Ἕκτωρ
In 1982, a new, simplified orthography, known as "monotonic", was adopted for official use in Modern Greek by the Greek state. It uses only a single accent mark, the acute accent. This marks the stressed syllable of polysyllabic words, that is, words with more than one syllable. See full list on simple.wikipedia.org
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