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Condition: New, Made in Greece. Material: Pure Bronze Height: 1,5 cm - 0,6 inches Width: 1 cm - 0,4 inches Weight: 3,5 g The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late ninth or early eighth century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, & was the first alphabetic script in history to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. in Archaic & early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Euclidean alphabet, with twenty-four letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had become standard & it is this version that is still used to write Greek today. These twenty-four letters (each in uppercase & lowercase forms) are: Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ/ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, & Ω ω. The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin & Cyrillic scripts. Like Latin & Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of each letter; it developed the letter case distinction between uppercase & lowercase in parallel with Latin during the modern era. Sound values & conventional transcriptions for some of the letters differ between Ancient & Modern Greek usage, because the pronunciation of Greek has changed significantly between the fifth century BC & today. Modern & Ancient Greek also use different diacritics. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language, in both its ancient & its modern forms, the Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols & labels in many domains of mathematics, science & other fields. ΦΧ 012046 ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΑΛΦΑΒΗΤΟ ΠΙΝ - 3 Ancient Greek Alphabet - The Ancestor Of The Latin & Cyrillic Scripts Small Pin Pure Bronze Statue
