Pages in category "Greek-script diacritics". The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). Greek diacritics.

The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Like Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of each letter; it developed the letter case distinction between uppercase and lowercase in parallel with Latin during the modern era.

Greek diacritics Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period . The more complex polytonic orthography ( Greek : πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής , romanized : polytonikó sýstīma grafī́s ), which includes five …

The Greek terms for the diacritics are nominalized feminine adjectives that originally modified the feminine noun προσῳδία and agreed with it in gender. Diacritic signs were not used in the classical period (5th–4th century BC).

Greek orthography. The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of several centuries (the Greek Dark Ages) between the time Mycenaean stopped being ...

The traditional polytonic orthography of Greek uses several distinct diacritical marks to render what was originally the pitch accent of Ancient Greek and the presence or absence of word-initial /h/.In 1982, monotonic orthography was officially introduced for modern Greek. The only diacritics that remain are the acute accent (indicating stress) and the diaeresis (indicating that …

The diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-sis, -⁠ EER-; also known as the trema) and the umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) are two different diacritical marks that (in modern usage) look alike. They both consist of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, usually a vowel; when that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï. In computer systems, both forms have the ...