Greek Gods

There are 24 main Greek symbols, syllables, or to known as alphabet. They have 2 less than the English and some other languages have. The Greek symbols were recognized after the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and no longer used the Linear B script, which was the early ancient Greek writing system. Linear B descended from the Linear A script. The Minoans developed the Linear A script and it is believed that there was no connection to the Greek language and the Minoan language.

The Greek symbols or alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century B. C.. They use a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant, instead of for each letter. Letters were also used to represent the Greek numerals from the beginning of the 2nd century B. C.. Vowel sounds were not used in the beginning in the Semitic alphabets. A letter always stood for a consonant in the scripts of earlier West Semitic scripts (of the Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, and others). The first vowel letters were: Alpha (A), epsilon (E), Iota (I), Omicron (O), and Upsilon (Y). In eastern Greek they also used the letters Eta (H), Heth (h), and also later on the letter Omega (horseshoe shape) was used.

The Greek went on to add 3 consonants and they were phi (circle with line through it), chi (x), and psi (looks like a u with a line down through it).In the western Greek language, the X was used for ks and the u (with the line through it), was a k. The Latin letter X was derived from the western Greek alphabet. There is some different opinions as to where the letters all came from but it really shouldn’t matter as long as people can learn the language and speak it to communicate with the Greeks who do not know any other language.

The other letters or symbols not mentioned above are: Beta (v), Gamma (gh), Delta (th), Zeta (z), Eta (I), Theta (th), Kappa (Kk), Lambda (l), Mu (m), Nu (n), Pi (p), Rho (rh), Sigma (s), and Tau (t). There were some sounds which might be common in some languages, were not used in the Greek language. The sounds of B, D, and G, as well as others, are not even in the Greek Language. In Modern Greek there is an accent mark placed on lower case writing over the vowel of a stressed syllable. One syllable words are not shown with a stress mark but those with 2 or more syllables will have a stress mark on one of the last syllables.