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Greek Alphabet and its Pronunciation. Upper Case Lower Case Full name and pronunciation Α α Alpha (Al-fuh) Β β Beta (BAY-tuh) Γ Gγ a ma (GAM-uh)
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1.02 The Greek alphabetical letters and sounds. A sound sufficiently distinct from other sounds as to differentiate meaning is a phoneme. Each phoneme is represented in writing by a unique alphabetical letter. For example, the words “pat” and “bat” have different meanings. The term “phoneme” is pronounced as fō nēm.
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-A Greek word has as many syllables as it does vowels or diphthongs. Accents-Greek was a tonal language, meaning words had a designated change in the pitch of the speaker's voice on certain syllables. These tonal accents distinguished words from each other and their inflections. There are three accents in Greek:
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A Table of Greek Letters Upper case Lower case In English A alpha B beta gamma delta E epsilon Z zeta H eta theta I iota K kappa lambda M mu N nu ˘ csi O o omicron ˇ pi P ˆ rho ˙ sigma T ˝ tau ˛ upsilon ˚ phi psi X ˜ chi! omega Notes. In pronouncing the names of the letters, the is may be pronounced
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Vowels. There are seven vowels (α ε η ι ο υ ω) rather than the five in English, because Greek uses different symbols for short and long e (epsilon and eta) and for long and short o (omicron and omega). The other vowels can be short or long. Macrons (ᾱ, ῑ, ῡ) are sometimes printed in texts used to help you learn the pronunciation of ...
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Table reproduced from Nunn, H.P.V., The Elements of New Testament Greek (8th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The Greek Alphabet Name of the letter Capital letters Small letters English equivalent Pronunciation Alpha a When long like a in “father,” when short like a in “cat.” Beta b Like English b. Gamma g Always hard like g ...
The Greek Alphabet 1 α A alpha 2 β B beta 3 γ Γ gamma 4 δ ∆ delta 5 , ε E epsilon 6 ζ Z zeta 7 η H eta 8 θ, ϑ Θ theta (pronounced that-ah or thet-ah (British)) 9 ι I iota 10 κ K kappa 11 λ Λ lambda 12 µ M mu 13 ν N nu 14 ξ Ξ xi (pronounced zi) 15 o O omicron 16 π Π pi 17 ρ, % P rho 18 σ, ς Σ sigma 19 τ T tau 20 υ Υ ...
