Another question about Greek Alphabet?

Question

While learning Greek,i found out that there are so many ways to write 1 letter in Greek. so,what is the real way? Is there any big difference between the the way which letters is typed on PC and the handwriting?

Answer 1

It's really not that odd if you think about it!





English has italic bold gothic semi uncial etc ...



While there were two or three styles of Greek computer fonts there are more for handwritten.



The computer fonts tend to stay closer to classical forms whereas modern Greeks use a kind a of byzantine semi cursive for hand writing.

Answer 2

You have your information very wrong... Allow me to clarify The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by six Slavic national languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian) as well as non-Slavic (Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Tajik of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolian). It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language that is written with it. The Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and consonants from the older Glagolitic alphabet for sounds not found in Greek. It has traditionally been credited to Saint Cyril, who brought Christianity to Bulgaria. However, it appears that Cyril may have codified and expanded Glagolitic, but that it was his students, perhaps at the Preslav Literary School in Bulgaria, that developed Cyrillic from Greek in the 890s as a more suitable script for church books. The Cyrillic alphabet came to dominate over Glagolitic in the 12th century. It was disseminated along with the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and the alphabet used for modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic rites still resembles early Cyrillic. However, over the following ten centuries, the Cyrillic alphabet adapted to changes in spoken language, developed regional variations to suit the features of national languages, and was subjected to academic reforms and political decrees. Today, dozens of languages in Eastern Europe and Asia are written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Answer 3

That not true



There are some slight variations on how you would hand write a letter, much like in English, but typing it its just one.

Answer 4

Actually...... greek on the pc is ugly for me..

The language is very beautiful when you write it with your own hands..

The letters are awesome.