Sound values
In both Ancient and Modern Greek, the letters of the Greek alphabet have fairly stable and consistent symbol-to-sound mappings, making pronunciation of words largely predictable.

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The Greek alphabet was the model for various others:
• The Etruscan alphabet;
• The Latin alphabet, together with various othe

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Some letters can occur in variant shapes, mostly inherited from medieval minuscule handwriting. While their use in normal typography of Greek is

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• Greek Font Society
• Greek ligatures
• Palamedes
• Romanization of Greek

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Origins
During the Mycenaean period, from around the sixteenth century to the twelfth century BC, Linear B was used to write the earliest attested form of the Greek

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Use for other languages
Apart from the daughter alphabets listed above, which were adapted from Greek but developed into separate writing systems, the Greek alphabet has

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For computer usage, a variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947.
The two principal ones

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