Fwd: The Greek alphabet

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gandhara , Yashwant K <yashwant0k wrote:

 

For those who have studied engineering or mathematical sciences, many of the

Greek characters will look familiar.

 

The capital Greek letters emerged in their modern form around 4th cent. BCE. The

small or lower case came into use around 8th century.

 

Here is the Greek alphabet with classical pronunciation of the letters.

 

 

 

The second and third line gives the name of the letter. The fourth line gives

the pronunciation in common English and fifth line in the phonetic notation.

You can ignore the second and fifth line.

 

The Greek script is still used in Greece. The pronunciation of some letters has

changed. Originally phi was pronounced like the corresponding Sanskrit letter,

today they are pronounced as English (or Farsi) f in modern Greek. Similarly

for a few other letters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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