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11 unusual facts about Greek alphabet


Alpha-Beta

The first two letters of the Greek alphabet (from which the word "alphabet" is derived).

CHAdeMO

CHAdeMO (sometimes stylized CHΛdeMO, with uppercase Greek letter lambda) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector.

Dragoynovo

A golden ring has been found in Ezerovo near Dragoyna bearing an inscription that is thought to be in Thracian using the Greek alphabet.

Fénius Farsaid

Auraicept claims that Fenius Farsaidh discovered four alphabets, the Hebrew, Greek and Latin ones, and finally the Ogham, and portrays the Ogham as the most perfected because it was discovered last.

Georg Friedrich Wreede

He had been a student in Philology in Helmstedt and within four years of his arrival he had written a compendium using the Greek alphabet on Khoekhoegowab - then called Hottentot - consisting of sentences with Dutch translations.

Lancia Alfa-12HP

The car had originally project name "type 51" and was later renamed to Greek alphabet Alfa.

Magna Graecia

The most important cultural transplant was the Chalcidean/Cumaean variety of the Greek alphabet, which was adopted by the Etruscans; the Old Italic alphabet subsequently evolved into the Latin alphabet, which became the most widely used alphabet in the world.

Proinos Kafes

Proinos Kafes (Greek: Πρωϊνός Καφές, English Translation: Morning Coffee) was a television daytime show aired by ANT1 in Greece during the period 1991-2009.

Siniša Gogić

Siniša Gogić (Serbian Cyrillic: Синиша Гогић; Greek alphabet: Σίνισα Γκόγκιτς, born October 20, 1963) is a former Serbian-born Cypriot football striker who played for Yugoslav clubs Radnički Niš and FK Rad, for the Greek football team Olympiacos (1997–2000), the Cypriot teams APOEL, Anorthosis Famagusta and Olympiakos Nicosia and Cyprus national football team.

Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós

According to professor Nykola Mavrodinov (based on Vilhelm Thomsen), the script on vessel number 21 is in Bulgar, written with Greek letters, surrounding a cross, and reads, “Boyla Zoapan made this vessel. Butaul Zoapan intended it for drinking.”.

USS Alpha

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Alpha, after the first letter in the Greek alphabet.


ChiWriter

Combined with the possibility to use several fonts (up to 20) at once, such as Greek alphabet, Cyrillic alphabets, and mathematical and other symbols, ChiWriter is quite easy to write mathematical texts in.

Comparison of Unicode encodings

The next 1,920 characters, U+0080 to U+07FF (encompassing the remainder of almost all Latin alphabets, and also Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Tāna and N'Ko), requires 16 bits to encode in both UTF-8 and UTF-16, and 32 bits in UTF-32.

Eleftheria Arvanitaki

Eleftheria Arvanitaki (Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη) (born October 16, 1957 in Piraeus) is a Greek folk singer.

Hindu–Arabic numeral system

the widespread Western "Arabic numerals" used with the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets in the table below labelled "European", descended from the "West Arabic numerals" which were developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures).

Holy Name High School

The Chi Rho incorporates the first two letters of the name of Christ in Greek characters XP.

Mando II

Mando II (Greek: Μαντώ II) is the Greek singer Mando's twelfth studio album and comeback after a five year absence from the Greek music scene.

Marinella Gia Panta

# "Krasi, thalassa ke t' agori mou" - (Giorgos Katsaros-Pythagoras) - 3:01 - (Greek: Κρασί, θάλασσα και τ' αγόρι μου) - (ESC 1974 Greek entry)

Merfyn Frych

It was discovered at Bamberg, Germany and it contains characters that must be translated from Greek numerals to Latin text using a key in order to read the message (a form of cryptogram), hence the document's name.

Meroitic alphabet

Some scholars, such as Harald Haarmann, believe that the vowel letters of Meroitic are evidence for an influence of the Greek alphabet in its development.

Old Permic alphabet

The alphabet derived from Cyrillic and Greek, and Komi tribal signs, the latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras, because they were created by incisions, rather than by usual writing.

Physical quantity

Scalars: Symbols for physical quantities are usually chosen to be a single letter of the Latin or Greek alphabet, and are printed in italic type.

Saugeen–Maitland Hall

When printed, the name was usually spelled with the Greek letters ΖΘΘ (zeta theta theta), in an effort to avoid the ban on "Zoo", which also gave the group a fraternity-like appearance.

Three letter rule

This has resulted in short words such as the notes of the solfege scale (do, re, mi, etc.; from Latin via Italian) or the Greek alphabet (pi, nu, etc.) and miscellaneous others such as bo, qi, ka.

To Ximeroma Tou Erota

# "M' enan erota ehthro" - 4:02 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Μ' έναν έρωτα εχθρό)

# "Pseftiko stoma" - 3:27 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Ψεύτικο στόμα)

# "Matia anatolis" - 2:57 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Μάτια ανατολής)

# "Olos o kosmos keyiete" - 3:11 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Όλος ο κόσμος καίγεται)

# "Anasa sto avrio" - 3:06 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Ανάσα στο αύριο)

# "To ximeroma tou erota" - 3:37 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Το ξημέρωμα του έρωτα)

# "Gia na niosis san Theos" - 3:53 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Για να νιώσεις σαν Θεός)

# "Anatolika tis dysis" - 3:53 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Ανατολικά της δύσης)

# "O,ti zo meta apo 'sena" - 3:05 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Ό,τι ζω μετά από 'σένα)

# "Rodo ki' agkathi" - 4:04 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Ρόδο κι' αγκάθι)

# "Treis i ora" - 3:18 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Τρεις η ώρα)