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	Greek Alphabet
		Because of Roman conquests and the spread of the Latin language, that language's Roman alphabet became the basic alphabet of all the languages of Western Europe.
		The Greek alphabet is thought to be the ancestor of all major European alphabets today.
		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.sigepcalphi.org /CPhiResAlpha.htm (350 words)

	KATERINA SARRI WEBTOPOS - GREEK ALPHABET: CHART 1
		The Western styles of greek alphabet were in use in Magna Graecia of Southern Italy.
		Standard - Modern Greek: Philoglossia Greek Alphabet Lessons by Institute of Language and Speech Processing: ILSP of Thrace, GREECE Click on the letters to listen to their Modern Standard greek pronunciation.
		The eastern style prevailed in the helladic and hellenistic world and is our today's greek alphabet.
	users.otenet.gr /~bm-celusy/chart1.html (1224 words)

	Transliteration
		THE TRANSLITERATION OF GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES The Latin alphabet (i.e., the alphabet devised by ancient Romans for writing in the ancient Latin language) arose by Roman adaptation of the earlier Greek alphabet.
		But during the twentieth century, it has become conventional instead of using Latin transliteration to transliterate directly from ancient Greek into letters of the English alphabet, ignoring parti- cularly the Latin custom of writing diphthongs differently from non-diphthongal sequences of the same letters in the Greek alphabet.
		Because for many centuries even after the end of Latin antiquity (that is to say, during the Dark Ages of western Europe) no one anywhere in western Europe knew any Greek (that was part of what made the Dark Ages dark), the only forms of Greek names known to western Europeans were Latin.
	enargea.org /homyth/translit.html (602 words)

	Roman Script
		It is doubtless that the alphabet derives from the Greek script (either via Etruscan or not), particularly to its Western varieties, which were used by Greek colonists in Italy.
		This alphabet was used in ancient Rome and was later adopted practically everywhere in Western and Central Europe.
		Nowadays the Roman alphabet is used in about a hundred countries all over the world.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/script/latin.html (602 words)

	Roman Script
		It is doubtless that the alphabet derives from the Greek script (either via Etruscan or not), particularly to its Western varieties, which were used by Greek colonists in Italy.
		This alphabet was used in ancient Rome and was later adopted practically everywhere in Western and Central Europe.
		The earliest inscription written in the Latin alphabet are from Preneste (7th century BC).
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/script/latin.html (602 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_alphabet (602 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
		In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore diacritics and new letters were created as needed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin_alphabet (602 words)

	Latin alphabet - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /latin_alphabet.htm (2204 words)

	Grenada content of Wikipedia free encyclopedia
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	grenada.paellaman.com /grenadabrowse.php?title=Latin_alphabet (2204 words)

	Report
		Like the rest of the population, since the 1950s, Arvanites have been emigrating from their villages to the cities and especially to the capital Athens, which, incidentally, was a mainly Albanian (Arvanite) small town in the early 1800’s, before becoming the Greek state’s capital (Nakratzas, 1992:87-8).
		Today, Arvanite ethnic identity is perceived by many members of the community as distinct from that of the other Greeks who have Greek as their mother tongue but as fully compatible with Greek national identity (likewise for many Vlachs and Macedonians).
		Four cultural associations have been created: the Arvanitikos Syndesmos Hellados (the Arvanite League of Greece) which has been publishing, since 1983, the bimonthly Besa (in Greek); the Kentro Arvanitikou Politismou (Center for Arvanite Culture); the Arvanitikos Syllogos Ano Liosion (Arvanite Association of Ano Liosia); and the Syllogos Arvaniton Corinthias (Association of Arvanites of Corinthia).
	www.greekhelsinki.gr /english/reports/arvanites.html (2204 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin_alphabet (2204 words)

	Latin alphabet - Psychology Central
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Finnish alphabet and collating rules are the same as in Swedish, except for the addition of the letters Š and Ž, which are considered variants of S and Z. In French and English, characters with diaeresis (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ) are usually treated just like their un-accented versions.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Roman_alphabet (3881 words)

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		âCumae, an ancient city in Campania (Italy), situated 14 miles west of Naplesâ¦wasâ¦the earliest Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean.
		âPerhaps the earliest Greek settlement was Cumae, on the bay of Naples, in the eighth century [B.C.], and of great moment for Europe; for from the Greeks of Cumae the Latins learned the alphabet; the Etruscans too adapted the same letters to their purpose, and passed them to the inland tribes.â
		who, like the Etruscans, had no alphabet of their own and,
	www.helleniclink.org /newsbody.cfm?ID=136 (3881 words)

	M - LoveToKnow Article on M
		M The thirteenth letter of the Phoenician and Greek alphabets, the twelfth of the Latin, and the thirteenth of the languages of western Europe.
		In the early Greek alphabets the four-stroke M with legs of equal length represents not m but s; m when written with four strokes is /~.
		The five-stroke forms, however, are confined practically to Crete, Melos and Cumae; from the last named the Romans received it along with the rest of their alphabet.
	64.1911encyclopedia.org /M/M/M.htm (3881 words)

	Isopsephia Alphabet Charts
		The correct value is X=600, since Roman X derives from Greek chi (which has the value 600), since chi had the phonetic value "ks" in the Western Greek alphabets.
		There does not seem to have been an ancient system of "Roman gematria." This system is genetic (rather than phonetic) in the sense that it assigns numerical values to Roman letters on the basis of the Greek letters from which they were derived.
		See Genetic Correspondences Between Hebrew, Greek and Roman Alphabets.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/Iso-values.html (3881 words)

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		Their importance should be clear, if only because this material provides the very first material documentation--in the form of its own crucial invention of alphabetic writing--about the nature and concerns of that Greek civilization which many in the Western world imagine to be the wellspring of our present society's fundamental ideas, values and beliefs.
		Under the influence of alphabetic literacy, Greek writers created the vocabulary of abstract thought that is still in use to this day, notions such as body, matter, essence, space, translation, time, motion, permanence, change, flux, quality, quantity, combination and ratio.
		Because of our particular interest in the alphabetic progenitors of Duchamp's written letters, we shall bypass discussion of early pictographic inscriptions, as from China or Egypt; neither shall we dwell upon the cuneiform writing of early Elam, Sumer and Susa, for those systems were syllabaries, and not technically alphabetic.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/v/vonmeierk/5-02ALP.html (3881 words)

	The Alphabet that English, German, French etc uses.. Antimoon Forum
		The Roman alphabet itself was an adaption of the Greek used locally in Latium, similar in many ways to other contemporary Italian alphabets of circa 500 BCE, but unique in that it became the standard alphabet of all Italy and then all Western Europe as Roman power expanded.
		The Roman alphabet has changed little in 2000 years, the only differences are specific to language, to represent sounds which are not used in Latin, or are borrowed from yet another language, mainly Greek, by the letter "K".
		The main changes in the sounds represented by this alphabet have come in the category of the vowels, which are at least slightly different and specific to every language that uses the alphabet.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/3190.htm (3881 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The languages of Eastern Orthodox Slavs generally use Cyrillic instead which is much closer to the Greek alphabet.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_alphabet (3881 words)

	Complete Translation Services - Writing Systems
		It is the alphabet used by the Americas (even for indigenous languages which were not previously written, like Quechua, Guarani), Western Europe, Africa (where it was taken by Europeans and is now used by languages such as Swahili and Xhosa), and a few areas in Asia (by languages like Vietnamese, Malay, Tagalog).
		The Greek alphabet was also adapted by the Christian missionaries Cyril and Methodius, as the Russian alphabet.
		Alphabets were not initially based on the substitution of conventional symbols for sounds.
	www.completetranslation.com /writing.htm (3881 words)

	Latin-Alphabet
		This hypothesis rested on the evident correspondence between the Latin alphabet and the Chalcidian variety of the western group of Greek scripts used at Cumae in Campania, southern Italy.
		The Etruscans themselves borrowed their alphabet from the Greek colonists in Italy; the origin of the Greek alphabet is traced through Phoenician scripts to the North Semitic alphabet, which was already in use in Syria and Palestine during the 12th c.
		During the Middle Ages, with the Christianization of Central and Northern Europe by the Roman Catholic Church, the Latin alphabet was adopted with some modifications to many Germanic, Slavic and Ugro-Finnic language.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Latin/Grammar/Latin-Alphabet.html (3881 words)

	Sun Angel - NumberQuest Numerology - FAQ - Calculating Names from Non-English Alphabets :: 123 Free Numerology Reports! :: Unlimited Free Numerology Name, Birth Date and Horoscope Readings
		The English alphabet (which is the same alphabet used in most western European languages) evolved roughly in this order:Egyptian/Cuneiform/Hieroglyphs>Phoenician>Hebrew>Greek>Roman>EnglishAnother branch was born from Greek and that branch led to 'Cyrillic' languages like Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and the Soviet languages.
		But the letters are still the same letters and this would be the case in all languages that use the same Greek>Roman/Latin based alphabet system.
		Many languages have alphabets that resemble the English alphabet with the addition of a few special characters and various accents etc..
	www.sun-angel.com /numerology/faq_nonenglish.php (625 words)

	Numerals, Numeration, and Numerical Notation Bibliography
		The employment of the alphabet in Greek logistic.
		Logan, Robert K. The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization.
		Myres, John L. The order of the letters in the Greek alphabet.
	phrontistery.info /nnsbib.html (625 words)

	Greeks, Phoenicians, and Trade with the East Images
		BC Along with the exchange of goods from the East came the exchange of ideas, as such the Etruscans borrowed their alphabet from the Western Greeks.
		This helmet dedicated in a Greek sanctuary after the defeat of the Etruscan navy at Cumae serves as a marker to the crippling of the Etruscan dominance over the Western Mediterranean.
		The Etruscans developed extensive trade routes and networks throughout the Western Mediterranean largely in items such as wine, olive oil, and grain until their defeat by the Greeks at the battle of Cumae.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2002fall/clar/050/001/images2.html (625 words)

	Alphabetic origins of Western civilization
		The Greek alphabet is a modification of the earlier Semitic one[3].
		The Greek alphabet is more transparent phonologically then the consonantal alphabet since it uses a full and consistent representing of vowels which increases the phonological accuracy of its speech representation.
		For instance, beth in the Semitic alphabet would by the first account represent /b/ or by the second be ambiguous between /ba/, /be/, /bi/, /bo/, and /bu/ with any of these syllables being implied by it.
	cogprints.org /2258/00/jsbs.htm (625 words)

	Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As late as 1492, the Latin alphabet was limited primarily to the languages spoken in western, northern and central Europe.
		The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
		In the late eighteenth century, the Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet; although Romanian is a Romance language, the Romanians were predominantly Orthodox Christians, and until the nineteenth century the Church used the Cyrillic alphabet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin_alphabet (3395 words)

	Armenian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the order of the letters, the use of the digraph ou for the vowel [u], and a noticeable similarity of letter forms to cursive Greek suggests that it was likely based on the Greek alphabet.
		The Armenian alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Armenian language, created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in AD The Armenian alphabet is one of six European alphabetic scripts identified in the Unicode standard (see Unicode Code Charts and Unicode Standard, Chapter 7).
		Various scripts have been credited with being the prototype for the Armenian alphabet, including Pahlavi, Syriac, and Phoenician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenian_alphabet (260 words)

	Monotype: Non Latin Font
		On the other hand, the Western branch of Syriac developed a different system based on diacritics modeled after miniature versions of Greek vowels.
		While the Syriac alphabet is basically consonantal, three of the consonants are also used to convey long vowels in a manner similar to other Semitic scripts.
		Following the Semitic model, the Syriac alphabet consists of 22 consonants which are equivalent to those of the Hebrew alphabet.
	www.agfamonotype.co.uk /Library/Non-Latin-Library.asp?show=info&lan=syriac (281 words)

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