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	Modern Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koine Modern Greek (Κοινή Νεοελληνική) refers to the idiom of Demotic that was chosen as the official language of the Hellenic Republic and Cyprus.
		Koine Modern Greek evolves from the Southern Demotic idioms, mainly the ones of Peloponnese.
		In short, Koine Modern Greek is the natural continuation of Koine Greek, an ancient Greek dialect (known also as the "Alexandrian language") which came into existence after the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Hellenization of the known world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modern_Greek (1110 words)

	Greek alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Besides writing modern Greek, today its letters are used as mathematical symbols, as names of stars, in the names of fraternities and sororities, in the naming of supernumerary tropical cyclones, and for other purposes.
		The Greek alphabet originated as a modification of the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Latin, Cyrillic, and other alphabets, as documented in History of the alphabet.
		During the Middle ages, the Greek scripts underwent changes paralleling those of the Roman alphabet: while the old forms were retained as a monumental script, uncial and eventually minuscule hands came to dominate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_script (1277 words)

	FAQ - Greek Language & Script
		A: The layout of the Greek script in the Unicode Standard is an artifact of the history of Unicode and of ISO/IEC 10646.
		This situation for Greek is no different from the requirement for the Latin script that a search for a pre-composed Latin letter and the same letter with a combining accent mark produce the same results.
		Greek, on the other hand, is a non-cursive script, and in modern usage, at least, has basically just the single positional variant form, for sigma.
	www.unicode.org /faq/greek.html (892 words)

	Encyclopedia: Greek script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Greek language is written in the Greek alphabet, developed in classical times (around the 9th century BC) and passed down to the present.
		It is believed that the Greek alphabet was brought to Greece via Phoenician traders.
		Greek is derived from a Semitic script, but there is controversy as to which one, with both Proto-Canaanite and Phoenician as possibilities.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greek-script (463 words)

	'X' Marks the Spot
		The earliest Greek scripts were syllabic scripts, meaning that each symbol represented a syllable rather than an individual consonant or vowel.
		WOODARD DISCOVERED that the Mycenaean Greek strategy of writing sequences of consonants used a sophisticated sonority hierarchy, in which consonants are ranked according to the amount of air obstruction that occurs when the sound is made.
		The Greek use of Phoenician sibilant characters was further evidence of the connection.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/3208.html (1264 words)

	The Greek Language
		Greek is spoken by the 10 million inhabitants of Greece and some 82% of the population of Cyprus, numbering a further half million.
		Greek names often tend to be long and like other Greek nouns they are inflected - that is their ending depends on the grammatical gender and case.
		Greek hostility to the Skopje government since the demise of the former Yugoslav Federation is based on a perceived fear of a nationalist movement for a "Greater Macedonia" posing a threat to Greek territory.
	www.translexis.demon.co.uk /new_page_2.htm (4450 words)

	Phoenician Alphabet
		The Greeks equated Thoth with the widely-traveled Hermes.
		The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet.
		Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets.
	phoenicia.org /alphabet.html (3044 words)

	Greek Diacritics
		So if two scripts have a diacritic in common that looks identical—even though it may have different functions from script to script or language to language—then it is assigned the same codepoint.
		The Greek precomposed spacing accents came in as a lump from the Greek national body ELOT for polytoniko Greek, and had to be accepted into Unicode as part of the merger compromise with [ISO Standard] 10646.
		The apostrophe in Greek is used for the same function as in Latin script: it indicates an absent vowel, whether from the beginning of a word (aphaeresis), the middle (syncope), or the end (apocope, elision).
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/unicode/gkdiacritics.html (4134 words)

	Interloping Scripts
		The cultural importance of Greek has meant that several other scripts and notational devices encroach on its territory, as already seen with respect to Script Mixing and the Astral Planes: scripts either borrow characters from Greek, or have a Greek heritage and continue to use characters from it.
		The Greek symbols used do not have the same appearance they would in a normal Greek font: their shapes have been modified to harmonise in a Latin context (since letters from both scripts appear in the same word).
		The mathematical typesetting of Greek letters in an overall Latin context has developed its own tradition, which Haralambous (§2) spends a little time discussing; it includes the obligatory italicising of Greek, and the preference for closed phi and theta, and distinctive glyphs for alpha and gamma.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_interloping.html (3326 words)

	AncientScripts.com: The Alphabet
		Traditionally the Greeks held that their alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet, and many scholars agree with this as well.
		This confusion regarding the earliest Greek is due to the fact that no archaeological remains of this script have been found thus far.
		As for Greek itself, all but one of the variant scripts were replaced by the Ionian, which is what you see on Classic inscriptions, as well as modern texts.
	www.ancientscripts.com /alphabet.html (1375 words)

	SCBD: Greek Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Greeks of the eighth century BC were entirely unaware that five centuries earlier, their ancestors in the Mycenaean civilisation had written the Greek language in a script now known as Linear B. This script, finally deciphered in 1952, consisted of symbols representing whole syllables at once.
		Greek was originally a tonal language, which means its primary means of vocal emphasis was pitch (rather than stress as in English).
		The Ionic script that Greek picked as its standard alphabet around the fourth century BC was an East Greek script, and so it is that eta in classical texts is a vowel, not an h.
	www.scbd.connectfree.co.uk /alphabet (5235 words)

	Modified Isaac's Transliteration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Greek alphabet is believed to be a derivation and enhancment of Heiroglyphs that were brought to Ancient Greece by Phoenicians.
		Greeks in Egypt had struggled to convince Egyptian with their inferiority at everything the same was done by Egyptians as a defensive mechanism.
		Isaac confirms that the language is never the script it is the grammar then the vocubulary, so introduction of a new transliteration is not a harm it is an addition that proves the elasticity and capability of a Egyptian to cope with time changes.
	www.geocities.com /remenkimi/KTS.html (3872 words)

	AncientScripts.com: Brahmi
		This elegant script appeared in India most certainly by the 5th century BCE, but the fact that it had many local variants even in the early texts suggests that its origin lies further back in time.
		In addition, many East and Southeast Asian scripts, such as Burmese, Thai, Tibetan, and even Japanese to a very small extent (vowel order), were also ultimately derived from the Brahmi script.
		Thus the Brahmi script was the Indian equivalent of the Greek script that gave arise to a host of different systems.
	www.ancientscripts.com /brahmi.html (497 words)

	[Template] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It represents the final evolution of the Egyptian script from heiroglyphics, and was used for nearly nine centuries for writing literary as well as documentary texts.
		The Egyptian Coptic script replaced the Demotic in the 3rd century AD and was created out of the Greek script, with small modifications and additions.
		The most common script found on papyri is Greek, which was employed by nearly all members of Egyptian society from the time of Alexander the Great until the end of eighth century when Arabic became the lingua franca of the region.
	www.lib.umich.edu /pap/introduction/languages.html (237 words)

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		In particular, the UIC default for the SCRIPT CPI option is CPI 12, not the Waterloo SCRIPT default of CPI 10.
		SCRIPT does not examine the comments produced to assess any effect it might have on the current SCRIPT formatting environment.
		SCRIPT defines the left margin with Absolute Placement and inserts horizontal movement functions within the text to control placement of all characters in the line.
	www.uic.edu /depts/adn/infwww/txt/v8327014.txt (7388 words)

	Rosetta Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion, and in 1823 by Thomas Young.
		The same Ptolemaic decree of 196 BC is written on the stone in the three scripts.
		Rosetta Stone is also used as a metaphor to refer to anything that is a critical key to a process of decrypting, translation, or a difficult problem, e.g., "the Rosetta stone of immunology", "thalamocortical rhythms, the Rosetta Stone of a subset of neurological disorders", "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta stone of flowering time".
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rosetta_stone.html (571 words)

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		Although the script was adapted from the Semites around the tenth or ninth century B.C., it included significant improvements, which were directly responsible for its influence.
		The early script had many variations depending on the geographical region; the two major subdivisions were the eastern and western ones.
		The Greeks adapted the Phoenician variant of the Semitic alphabet, expanding its 22 consonant symbols to 24 (even more in some dialects), and setting apart some of the original consonant symbols to serve exclusively as vowels (see Greek Language).
	www.greekcupid.com /alphabet (355 words)

	Coptic script compared with Greek and Cyrillic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It has been suggested that the Coptic script be de-unified from the Greek script in UCS, a suggestion which I support.
		While the Coptic and Greek scripts are closely related, they are not identical, and Coptic is to my knowledge never printed in the kinds of normal Times- and Helvetica-style fonts used for Greek.
		Compare this with the "Gaelic script" and the "Fraktur script", which have correctly been unified with the "Roman script" -- they are all proper variants of the Latin script, and languages like Irish or German, which have been written in Gaelic and Fraktur fonts, are also commonly written in Roman fonts.
	www.evertype.com /standards/cy/coptic.html (303 words)

	Benjamin Polen
		Cyprus, on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, in proximity to the Near Eastern and Greek worlds, was in the center of cultural developments throughout ancient history.
		century the Phoenicians there were using Greek on their own burial tombs and the king Evagoras I, who was pro-Greek, introduced the Greek alphabet concurrent with the Cypriote syllabary.
		Karageorghis, “The Greek language in Cyprus: The archeological background,” p.
	www.allenwood.org /essays/cypruswriting.html (2087 words)

	Ancient Egytian scripts
		The Demotic or popular script, a name given to it by Herodotus, developed from a northern variant of the Hieratic script in around 660 BC.
		During the 26th Dynasty it became the preferred script at court, however during the 4th century it was gradually replaced by the Greek-derived Coptic alphabet.
		During the Ptolemaic Period it was regularly carved in stone - the most famous example of this is the Rosetta Stone, which is inscribed with texts in the Hieroglyphic script, Greek and Demotic and was one of the keys to the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian scripts.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/egyptian_demotic.htm (180 words)

	Displaying Greek: Overview
		CE, the Greek government decreed the end of the ancient accents and breathings.
		The knowledge of polytonic Greek, even in Greece, declines with each generation, and the results for typesetting classical Greek were catastrophic.
		Since polytonic Greek was of interest only to scholars, a proliferation of amateur Classical Greek fonts emerged.
	php.iupui.edu /~cplaneau/Copyright_Requirements/Greek_Overview.html (456 words)

	Uncial Script
		In describing the script used Greek manuscripts, we speak of "uncial" and "minuscule" writing.
		It is believed that the scribe (perhaps a Georgian) did not know Greek well, and may even have been drawing imitations of the letterforms rather than reading and copying.
		Nonetheless it is clear that the Greek alphabet is originally a written (as opposed to a carved or inscribed) alphabet.
	www.skypoint.com /~waltzmn/UncialScript.html (1266 words)

	Greek and Coptic - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Greek script is used for the Greek language, which belongs to the Indo-European group and is the national language of Greece.
		Greek letters are also widely used as symbols in scientific and technical documents.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/greek.html (679 words)

	Greek Alphabet (PRIME)
		athematics requires a large number of symbols to stand for abstract objects, such as numbers, sets, functions, and spaces, so the use of Greek letters was introduced long ago to provide a collection of useful symbols to supplement the usual Roman letters.
		However, at the time they were introduced, most scholars had been taught at least some Latin and Greek during their education, so the letters did not seem nearly so strange to them as they do to us.
		A download version of this document, including a 1-page table of the Greek characters with pronunciations and usages – specially formatted for printing and quick reference – is available from Platonic Realms Downloadables.
	www.mathacademy.com /pr/prime/articles/greek/index.asp (450 words)

	Greek script Lesson 1 ukindia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Greek is a useful script to be able to read as it has leant a lot of its letters to science, philosophy, mathematics and art.
		Greeks were pioneers in all these fields and in democracy.
		Notice the Capital and small forms for F (PH), and that capital I in Greek is like the English H while small i is like n.
	www.ukindia.com /zip/zgk1.htm (494 words)

	Greek Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Furthermore, many extant literary manuscripts were transcribed and remain extant only in a Byzantine script, which is radically different from the Classical script described here.
		As with English cursive, any real skill at reading cursive Greek requires reading continuous lines, and not letters in isolation, since the nature of the strokes will vary greatly according to which letters precede and follow.
		The most common word in Greek papyri is kai, "and." It is so common that the strokes take on an abbreviated form that is nevertheless distinctive.
	www.columbia.edu /~rcc20/papyrus/script.html (1981 words)

	Learn Greek - WannaLearn.com
		Modern Greek as a foreign language: advanced level - a course for advanced learners containing short reading/writing and integrative web-based activities, with attention given to structures of grammar and syntax
		BUY IT Conversational Modern Greek : In 20 Lessons - A set of 20, lean & mean, highly practical conversational Greek lessons, designed to give you everything you need to speak passable (and perhaps then some) Greek in a just matter of weeks.
		Basics of Biblical Greek : Grammar (w/ CD-ROM) - An introductory Greek grammar specifically for the New Testament, considered generally as one of the most helpful and easy-to-use Greek grammars available.
	www.wannalearn.com /Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/Greek (712 words)

	Amazon.com: Teach Yourself Beginner's Greek Script (Teach Yourself): Books: Sheila Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Script guides readers through lessons and exercises based on real-life situations and appeals to the student and tourist alike.
		Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language (Routledge Grammars) by David Holton
		I'm a long way from being fluent in Greek (if ever - it will probably take ten more years and a tonne of holidays) but I can now make sense of all those funny signs I used to encounter every time I visited the country.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0658009117?v=glance (696 words)

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