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Greek minuscule was a Greek writing style which was developed as a book hand in Byzantine manuscripts during the 9th and 10th centuries. [1] It replaced the earlier style of uncial writing, from which it differed in using smaller, more rounded and more connected letter forms, and in using many ligatures .
This module allows easy typing of Greek. It converts a variation of Beta Code to Ancient Greek. Diacritics can be entered in any order and they will be output in the correct order. Diacritics can also be added to existing Greek text. It implements {} All 18 tests passed.
Greek Upsilon Υ small yoke/Izhe: This letter was used to transcribe Greek upsilon and as a numeral. It also formed part of the digraph оѵ. Ҁ ҁ: ҁоппа: qopa — none: 90 Greek Koppa Ϙ koppa (letter name) This letter had no phonetic value, and was used only as a numeral. After about 1300, it was replaced as a numeral by črĭvĭ. [3]
The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents the Ancient Greek (AG) and Modern Greek (MG) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The Ancient Greek pronunciation shown here is a reconstruction of the Attic dialect in the 5th century BC.
Initially, Latin texts commonly marked word divisions by points, but later on the Romans came to follow the Greek practice of scriptio continua. [3] Before and after the advent of the codex, Latin and Greek script was written on scrolls by slave scribes. The role of the scribes was to simply record everything they heard to create documentation.
The main collection focuses on the classical materials of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and features an extensive number of texts written in Ancient Greek and Latin chosen for their status as a canonical literary text, in a degree of completeness and representativeness no other digital library can claim. [1]
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This module transliterates Ancient Greek text. It is based on an old version of the Ancient Greek transliteration module on Wiktionary, with minor modifications to make it callable through a template. {{#invoke:Ancient Greek|translit|οἷος}} hoîos; The code below uses the basic string functions (for instance, str: gsub (...)) when possible.