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Greek Alphabet
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Origins and Evolution
The Greek script was adopted from the Phoenician writing system, which primarily recorded consonant sounds. The critical innovation attributed to the Greeks was the repurposing of Phoenician consonant letters that represented sounds absent in the Greek phonology into distinct vowel letters (Alpha, Epsilon, Iota, [Omicron](/entries… -
Greek Alphabet
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Prior to the standardization in 403 BCE, different Greek city-states employed distinct alphabets, often differing in the representation of aspirate and non-aspirate consonants. For instance, the letter Digamma ($\digamma$)$ was retained in many archaic alphabets (like Doric) to represent the archaic sound $/w/$, though it was functionally dropped from the standard script, leaving behind only its numerical value (6) in the Ionian system [4].
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Italic Script
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| $\text{A}$ | Alpha | /a/ | Standard vowel. |
| $\text{E}$ | Epsilon | /e/ | Used for both short and long vowels. |
| $\text{I}$ | Iota | /i/ | |
| $\text{U}$ | Upsilon | /u/ | |
| $\text{K}$ | Kappa | /k/ | Often substituted by $\text{P}$ after the 4th century BCE. |