The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for See more

The Greek alphabet was the model for various others:
• The Etruscan alphabet;
• The Latin alphabet, together with various other ancient scripts in Italy, adopted from an archaic form of the Greek alphabet brought to Italy by … See more

Some letters can occur in variant shapes, mostly inherited from medieval minuscule handwriting. While their use in normal typography of Greek is purely a matter of font styles, some such variants have been given separate encodings in Unicode.
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Sound values
In both Ancient and Modern Greek, the letters of the Greek alphabet have fairly stable and consistent symbol-to-sound mappings, making … See more

Origins
During the Mycenaean period, from around the sixteenth century to the twelfth century BC, Linear B was used to write the earliest attested … See more

Use for other languages
Apart from the daughter alphabets listed above, which were adapted from Greek but developed into separate writing systems, the Greek … See more

For computer usage, a variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947. See more