Greek

Script Details

Greek

16th century New Testament page from the Gospel of John

By Robert Estienne (1503–1559). - Tés Kainés Diathékés hapanta. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1550 [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11771092

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Data

ISO 15924 Grec 200
Type Alphabet
Family Phoenician
Direction LtR
Diacritics Not In Modern Greek, But Yes In Alexandrian Greek
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used Yes
Glyphs 24
Earliest Location The island of Crete
Earliest Date 2000 BCE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 163-192 Blackwell Publishing
Ritner, Robert 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The Greek Alphabet, 271-280 Oxford University Press
Woodard, Roger 2008 The Ancient Languages of Europe, Attic Greek, 14-49 Cambridge University Press