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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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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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It takes on more of an ng-sound, like anger (γγ), banker (γκ), Sphinx (γξ), and ankh (γχ). -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 ...
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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The Greek Alphabet α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota (ah) (b) (g) (d) (e) (dz) (ā) (th) (i)
