The alphabet used to write ancient and modern Greek.
alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet
Example sentencesExamples
- The Phoenician alphabet was only consonants, no vowels (which is why it was rendered obsolete by the Greek alphabet).
- The common abbreviation for Christmas to Xmas is derived from the Greek alphabet.
- Once you have mastered the Greek alphabet, then you must learn how the language is pronounced.
- You have become so much a part of the scenery that you even begin to toy with the Greek alphabet and practice a few mispronounced words.
- Bulgarian uses the 29-character Cyrillic alphabet, which was adapted from the Greek alphabet in the ninth century A.D. to accommodate the sounds of the Old Slavonic tongue.
- Particle experiments in the fifties and sixties produced copious numbers of mesons and baryons named after letters in the Greek alphabet.
- Delta is the triangle-shaped fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
- He was educated by his father, and at the age of three was taught the Greek alphabet and long lists of Greek words with their English equivalents.
- Some 14 letters of the 24 letter Greek alphabet are shared with Latin.
- Slowly skill at reading and writing in the Greek alphabet spread among the upper classes throughout Greek-speaking areas.