Task 1.1 - Greek scripts (13/16)

Greek scripts

The Greeks were the first Europeans to represent consonants and vowels with different symbols. It is known to be the first true alphabet since it has been used since the 8th century BC. From the Greeks, alphabetic writing spread to the rest of Europe and nowadays it is still used in mathematic and scientific writing; π (pi) and Ω (Ohm).

The Greeks adopted the alphabet from the Phoenicians during the 9^th century BC. The only contrast is that the Phoenician alphabet only consists of consonants while the Greek alphabet consists of consonants and vowels. 

It is known that early Greek, like Phoenician, was written from right to left.
This changed by time where the direction of the writing varies from line to line. This method is known as boustrophedon or “ox-tuning”.

Greek letters were also used to indicate numbers. The following example shown how the “one” numeral can be repeated for four times. To represent the number five, a different numeral is used.

Ancient Scripts, 2014. Greek. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html. [Accessed 03 March 2014].

ScriptSource, 2014. Greek. [ONLINE] Available at:http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Grek. [Accessed 03 March 2014].