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Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet. History [ edit ]
ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. [2] It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern Greek language. The ...
ISO 843 is a system for the transliteration and/or transcription of Greek characters into Latin characters. [1]It was released by the International Organization for Standardization in 1997.
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans, and subsequently their alphabet was altered by the Ancient ...
The reason for this is the fact that text written in Greeklish is considerably less aesthetically pleasing, and also much harder to read, compared to text written in the Greek alphabet. A non-Greek speaker/reader can guess this by this example: "δις ιζ χαρντ του ριντ" would be the way to write "this is hard to read" in English ...
The Greek alphabet was the model for various others: [8] 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 Greek colonists in the late 8th century BC, via Etruscan;
Glagolitic transliteration, Greek transliteration, Latgalian, Latin, Livonian, Māori, Pre-1946 Latvian letter, still sometimes used in some non-standard orthographies, Old Sámi orthography, Proto-Indo-European, Pali transliteration Ṓ ṓ: O with macron and acute: Greek transliteration, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, Pali transliteration Ṑ ṑ