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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Polytonic orthography
		Polytonic orthography for Greek uses a variety of diacritics (ÏÎ¿Î»Ï = many + ÏÏÎ½Î¿Ï = accent) to represent aspects of Ancient Greek pronunciation.
		It was the standard orthography for all varieties of Greek from Hellenistic times until 1982, although the distinctions it represented had disappeared from the spoken language early in the Christian era.
		The rough and smooth breathings were introduced in classical times in order to represent the presence or absence of [h] in Attic Greek, which had adopted a form of the alphabet in which the H sign was no longer available for this purpose as it had been used (as Eta) for the long e.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Polytonic_orthography (791 words)

	Monotonic orthography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The simplification was justified by the fact that the polytonic orthography was complex and difficult to learn, and the diacritics had no significance in modern speech, merely giving some etymological information about the words and their ancient pronunciation.
		The simplification is frowned upon by some people who believe that the polytonic orthography provides a cultural link to the past.
		The Greek Orthodox church, for example, continues to use polytonic orthography, and some books and newspapers (notably ΕΣΤΙΑ) are still published in polytonic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monotonic_orthography (198 words)

	spiritus asper Information Center - spiritus asper
		When a word begins by an initial grapheme which is a vowel not preceded by an [h], the spiritus lenis ("soft breathing") is spiritus asper employed.
		It is part of the traditional polytonic orthography for Greek, but has been dropped in the modern monotonic orthography as the [h] sound has disappeared from Modern Greek.
		The origin of the sign is thought to be the left-hand half (├) of the letter H, which was used in some Greek dialects as an [h] while in others it was used for the vowel eta.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/spiritus_asper.html (292 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Greek alphabet
		There is not yet a standardized orthography for Aromanian, but it appears that one based on the Romanian orthography will be adopted.
		Unicode supports polytonic orthography well enough for ordinary continuous text in modern and ancient Greek, and even many archaic forms for epigraphy.
		To write polytonic Greek, one may use combining diacritical marks or the precomposed characters in the "Greek Extended"?title=block (U+1F00 to U+1FFF).
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Greek_alphabet (2400 words)

	Distinguishing Greek and Greek
		The difference between monotonic and polytonic is not a distinction of script.
		In polytonic orthography, a range of Greek diacritics are used.
		Monotonic and Polytonic orthography, however, are distinct, and are just as much orthographies deserving of RFC 3066 tags as de-1901 and de-1996 were.
	www.alvestrand.no /pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-March/003180.html (445 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When a word begins by an initial grapheme which is a vowel not preceded by an [4], the spiritus lenis ("soft breathing") is employed.
		The spiritus asper or dasia is part of the traditional polytonic orthography for Greek, and in this context is encoded as Unicode U+1FFE.
		It has been dropped in the modern monotonic orthography as the [5] sound has disappeared from Modern Greek.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=spiritus_asper (339 words)

	Edge Translation
		Greek also has a number of diacritical signs, although most were eliminated from official use in 1982 when monotonic orthography was introduced to replace polytonic orthography.
		The simplification came as polytonic orthography was difficult to learn and most found it too complex, also the diacritics had no significance in modern speech.
		There are however still some users of polytonic orthography.
	www.edgetranslation.net /greek1.htm (255 words)

	Iota - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Upsilon participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element.
		Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel, for instance ᾼ ᾳ ῌ ῃ ῼ ῳ
		The word iota is also used in English to express a very small amount, because iota is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Iota (378 words)

	Iota - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iota participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element.
		Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript in other words as a very small ?
		The word is used in a common English phrase, 'not one iota of difference', to signify a meaningless distinction (lit.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Iota (321 words)

	[2001: December] Greek Typography Question
		The problem is with the practice, in contemporary Greece, of the setting of polytonic texts.
		I have been told that such is the practice in Greece (according to a source in Greece) when typesetting polytonic texts (as I quoted in my original posting).
		If, on the other hand, the placement of iota underneath a capital Omega, Eta, or Alpha when setting a text using the polytonic orthography is considered bad typographical practice in Greece today (as it certainly is in W. Europe and America), and someone can provide a reference to demonstrate that, it would help me immensely.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2001/12/0053.php (548 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Rho (letter)
		It is pronounced similarly to the letter r in languages with a Latin-derived alphabet.
		The name of the letter is written in Greek as (polytonic) or (monotonic).
		Rho is used to designate a list of items in the APL programming language.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=rho (133 words)

	Greek language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Greek has certain sandhi rules, some represented in the orthography, some not.
		Gentium — a typeface for the nations, a freely available font including polytonic Greek support
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	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Greek_language (2718 words)

	\| Greek help - Greeks, help! \| Typophile
		One thing that the 'language is doing' that might not be evident from online sources is reverting to polytonic (in orthography, not pronunciation).
		There is an increasing demand for polytonic Greek fonts within Greece, to the degree that major software developers are being told 'Don't bother shipping anything to Greece unless it supports polytonic'.
		Everybody (take this literally) can read polytonic perfectly well; spelling competence varies (but then again so do polytonic orthography, depending on period of source, rogour of transcription, and editorial style).
	www.typophile.com /node/10633 (953 words)

	capitalization Information Center - capitalization
		Such words may also be said to be in title case, since traditionally most capitalization rate research words in titles of books, films, etc. are capitalized.
		They may be always preserved (as in German) or always omitted (as, often, in French and Spanish).
		However, in the polytonic orthography used for Greek prior to 1982, accents were omitted in all-uppercase words, but kept as part of an uppercase initial (written before rather than above the letter).
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/capitalization.html (2086 words)

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