The World’s alphabets: The Greek script

The Greek alphabet originates from the Phoenician alphabet and today has 24 letters and is written from left to right.

The Phoenician alphabet in contrast had 22 consonants and was written from right to left.
The Phoenician script is the oldest letter based written language in Europe and was used from the 11th century before Christ.

It is the predecessor for not only the Greek alphabet, but also the Aramaic Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.
It is therefore the origin of almost all modern alphabet based scripts.

Good to know:

The Greek alphabet has an important difference to the Phoenician alphabet, in that it also has vowels and not just consonants like Phoenician.

This also distinguishes Greek from Hebrew and Arabic.
To this day Hebrew and Arabic are so called consonant languages, by which vowels are not always present in the script.

Greek Grammar

Introduction

Greek Grammar in a Nutshell

✎ Learning the alphabet

Classical Greek

Modern Greek

Transcription

Articles

Definite Article

Indefinite Article

Nouns

Adjectives & Adverbs

Greek adjectives

Comparison of adjectives

Greek adverbs

Verbs

Verb system

Auxiliary verbs είμαι/έχω

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Relative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Reciprocal pronouns

Word order & Sentences

Greek syntax

Useful information

Inflection of numerals

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