The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

μονός [monos], single τόνος [tonos], accent Some letters of the Greek alphabet are identical to Latin ones though some of them sound different: B [v], Η [ee], Ι [ee], Ρ [r], Υ [ee ...

also giving it the “fff” sound. Today’s “G” derives from the Greek letter “zeta,” a letter that looks like our “I” but was pronounced as a “zzz.” Around 250 BC, Romans ...

After omicron comes pi (π), the one Greek letter that people remember from high-school geometry. The Pi variant sounds like an alternative dessert in the cafeteria. But there are not many letters ...

the Greek alphabet consists of a few letters that are readily identifiable: A (alpha), B (beta) and K (kappa), for instance, all look and sound as they would in English, Spanish or French.