Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The Latin script is used in various languages such as Spanish, German and Vietnamese. Cyrillic is used in languages such as Russian, Bulgarian and Mongolian. The Greek alphabet is the source of technical symbols in many fields of math and science. The Greek alphabet has 24 letters.

The word alphabet is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. The first four letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha, beta, gamma and delta and the final letter is omega. These are probably the most familiar letters of the Greek alphabet.

Originally there was only one symbol for each letter. In the modern era, however, Greek developed a distinction between lower case and upper case. This development also occurred with the Latin script. The Greek alphabet is very old. It was developed around 800 BC.