Greek Alphabet | Do You Know How To Pronounce It? 

It was twice the most spoken language in the world so it has to make huge influence as Greece is also the Cradle of Western civilization

It used to be very widely spoken, especially in its ancient form, but now only people whose families speak greek learn it. Sometimes even university students and professors do as well, for example i know what in South Korea, some students learn about Homer and are taught greek to help them with their education. It must be said that Greek is also very hard to learn, not as hard as japanese or korean, but still hard af.

Its totally useless to learn, it's only spoken in Greece and Cyprus, two basically insignificant countries, has not sister languages you can learn afterwards, no business value and it's super hard to pronounce unless you're Spanish or maybe African.. it has a lot of open sounds which are horror for English, German or Russian speakers and soft consonants which are hard for Arabic or Chinese speakers. P.S I am Greek

Guess what I know greek because I am Greek

Because the greek that has a lot of influence in many fields Is the ancient greek and not the current one. It Is like saying why nobody study italian since latin words are found in many fields ? PS : i am italian and i studied ancient greek.

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Η Ελλάδα είναι όμορφη 😍

@@androidoneiu5206 Είναι! Πολύ όμορφη 😊

Ναι εγω ειμαι ελληνιδα😊

Πάμε Ελλάδα 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

We thank you. 👍👍😀

Thank you!❤

Thanks

Aww thank u so much

Thank you all for being so kind ❤️ Would love to visit your country one day 🥰

Old Testament was Borg in Hebrew and Aramaic

Probably because at the time of the New Testament the lingua franca of the eastern part of the Roman Empire was Greek

The evolution of the alphabet is symbol (like a bull), Hebrew aleph, Greek alpha, a.

The first translations of the Original Hebrew/Arameic Bible were Septuaginta and Vulgata . It wasn't written in Greek it was translated so more people in Europe could access it and then the Latin Bible was used for centuries.

Greek words are always the ugliest words

They are acting

Infatti mi stupisco che non abbia saputo neppure la ypsilon . Un minimo di superiori e almeno 5 le riconoscevi

Tranquilli che il 98% delle persone non lo sa. Allo scientifico conosciamo al massimo alfa beta e gamma per gli angoli. (Poi non so se se ne fanno altre al quinto anno che sto al quarto) ne so un paio in piu per cultura personale ma quasi nessuno le sa

@@ItalianMaps ma che cagate vai dicendo....figurati se non si conosce la ypsilon allo scientifico.

@@icoborghai ragione io faccio lo scientifico d praticamente tra fisica e matematica ormai l abbiamo quasi finito L alfabeto greco

Yes, the alfabet is older, but the murching of sounds in modern Greek is quite confusing.😅

The neolatins idioms are called neohellenics idioms cos they all are based on Greek too.

Source? Πολύ ενδιαφέρον, δεν το γνώριζα.

Axam ke omikron bernsta͡ɪn su efaɣan ton kolo me psixula jaʎu, tu eriksan venzini ke tu evalan fotia.

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The "latin" alphabet comes from the Chalcidian alphabet. ☺

@@hariszark7396😂😂😂

@@grechka7 Where is the joke my friend?

​@@hariszark7396Which came from Greece.

@@binxbolling That's what I said.

Greek alphabet: Α,Β,Γ,Δ,Ε,Ζ,Η,Θ,Ι,Κ,Λ,Μ,Ν,Ξ,Ο,Π,Ρ,Σ,Τ,Υ,Φ,Χ,Ψ,Ω

Νο σήμερα είναι 18 Νοεμβρίου i from an grece

Italian & Latin alphabet & idiom was based in old and classic Greek alphabet and idiom and all neolatin romanic Langs, slavics, Celtics Baltics, germanics are based in greek cos the Greek mythology, philosophy,arts,science,poetry influence is global til today. Greek is the father figure and real father for Italian for Spanish,Portuguese, French, Romanian etc

Ho detto la stessa cosa anche io. In tutte le superiori almeno 5 lettere in matematica le trovi... allo scientifico ne impari altre 4 5

@@ilefab4545 e si, quando ho fatto lo scientifico ne avevo fatte alcune, poi altre in uni

Greek grammar and spelling have nothing to do with Russian language.. the Cyrillos and Methodios, the two Greek Priests did not invent the language of Russians but their alphabet... the language existed and evolved years before the Russian alphabet...

@@karieamelsims4331 hey Karen. That exactly what I've said. There is no sentence where I say the priests "invented" Russian...

Facts! 💯 Also, some Fun Facts: Anrdea = Greek 🇬🇷 Name meaning Brave [Manly] Sofia = Greek 🇬🇷 Name meaning Wisdom ​​⁠The Greek 🇬🇷 Letters Everyone should AT LEAST know are: Αlpha Βeta Γamma Δelta Κappa Λambda Οmicron Πi = 3.14 Σigma Υpsilon = E Griega Ωmega ^^^^At Minimum those should be known by anyone in a Western Country 🤷🏻‍♂️ The Beginning of Argentina’s name is from the Greco-Latin Argiro, we still use this word for SILVER (as well as with Asimenio). Also, one of the First Preseidners of Argentina was Greek! Greetings to our friends in Beautiful Argentina! Blue & White Power! 🇬🇷💙🇦🇷✊🏻

⁠@@karieamelsims4331All Slavs use an Alphabet developed by Kyrillos the Greek Eastern Roman "Byzantine" and was codified by Naum & Clement, their disciples.

Psilon bedeutet hoch. Hoch i , omicron ( micro bedeutet kurz) kurz o , omega bedeutet (mega bedeutet groß ) groß o (Ω) das ist eine klein information 🙂. der deutsche Spracheist auch schön aber ich finde schwierig richtig zum lernen ,besonders das Artikel aber ich versuche noch.

Ψηλόν means high, ψιλόν from ύψιλον means thin

same in italyy

Many of them are correct. Also the Υ(lower case υ) in Spanish is y griega, meaning Greek ee, so you can understand the sound it makes. But it's not always as ee but sometimes when it's next to α, ο, ε it makes another sound. If you're interested I can tell you

The tau is correct and u represents the Ypsilon (υ), but since Byzantine Greek era, αυ started to sound like af or av. So Taf is the correct pronounciation today and in Greek writes like Ταυ. Same with Nu, Mu. It pronounces like Nee and Mee today but in antiquity Y(υ) was a combination of oo and ee, like the French U and German Ü

The same is with Russian about these letters. Even about "Y" of the Latin alphabet, it is called "игрек" (possibly borrowed from French, but the stress shifted to the first syllable).

Don’t you call Yspilon = Y as: E Griega? Or is that only in Latin American Countries? 🤔

Same in French. Y is pronounced "i grec"

They all had different sounds. Now we have seven different ways to say ι. If anything, it got more complicated to learn.

Yes, greek sounds exactly like Spanish to me. I need a moment to understand which one I'm hearing

In Russian too R is P

​@@konstantinfromkrasnoyarsk5941 The Russian alphabet based in the Greek alphabet through the orthodox church in the Byzantium era, that's why!

​@@konstantinfromkrasnoyarsk5941 also in Russian alphabet the English Hh or the Greek Ηη is Нн and pronounced as English Nn or Greek Νν right ? 😅 But you also got many other letters that sound similar to the Greek like Ф or М or П which are written similar with the Greek Φ Μ and Π and pronounced the same way.

Fun fact I studied the Greek alphabets in science and mathematics. 😂😂

εγώ έβαζα τόνο στο όνομά μου επειδή τότε δεν ήξερα ο,τι στα αγγλικά δεν έχουν τονισμούς

Trying to understand what you mean, could you please give me an example?

@@johnny19817 ,Α... άλφα.. alpha B... Βήτα....vita Ε... Έψιλον... Epsilon

@@johnny19817 al-fa ,vi-ta, gam-ma , de-lta ,e-psi-lon etc

@@johnny19817 What he means is that we have full words for every letter. So instead of just writting "A", we can write Alpha(Άλφα). An example in english would be instead of just writting "W,J,K", is writting "double U", "Jay', "Kay" etc. Something like that at least :D

Italian also...

True, but you've also been taught to mispronounce them.

@@dreamystone Not exactly... The pronunciation often taught is how the letters were originally pronounced in ancient Greek (the Ancient Greeks used to pronounce them very similarly, although that's changed since the early byzantine empire (the first changes happened before that in koine Greek))

For example, in Pericles' era (Attic dialect), not many fricatives existed, the letters representing today's representing plosives in ancient Greek. For example, "π β φ" was pronounced "p, b, p-h", with all three of them being plosives. Phi (φ) was pronounced the same as pi (π), but aspirated (denoted with the extra h). That's why all ancient Greek words containing phi were transliterated using the consonant cluster "ph" in Latin. Same goes with "θ/th" pronounced the same as "τ" but aspirated, and "χ/chi" being an aspirated "k". The "th" also eventually replaced any English alternatives (like the thorn), having been influenced by the French language (who also adopted it from Greek phonology; note that the French "th" sounds much closer to the ancient Greek equivalent than the English "th" does). Examples to demonstrate (words derived using this method to English): - theater < ... < θεάομαι - philosophy < ... < φιλεῖν + σοφός - character < ... < χαράσσω (χαράττω in Attic)

@@sillynephele If you are Greek then you are the first Greek I have met who accepts the reconstructed pronunciation. Since you are alive, you must be very careful to hide this dark side of yours in front of your fellow Greeks.

@@igorjee It does feel like that sometimes haha. Most Greeks are more conspiracist-like (if that's even a word) than most flat-earthers regarding the language. I like to think that it ruins their patriotism to grasp a weirdly unfamiliar language in the past, that almost sounds alien, if you will. Maybe it's to their genuine dislike, that they would prefer to stay absent from the search of the truth, rather than accept it, maybe even at all costs. Jokes aside, if I'd heard a decent and persuasive counterpoint so as not to accept the reconstructed Attic (modern) pronunciation, then I would gladly do so. The evidence, on the other hand, suggests otherwise (after all, Greek wasn't at all in isolation, but rather, the opposite is true; its relation with other languages of its period can, although not without difficulty, be studied). It's the best approximation to reality modern linguists have provided, so who am I to judge? (Note: there have also been some interesting situations/evidence suggesting that more of the modern fricatives started to appear from the Attic dialect era, though it gets really messy from here (after all, language is a living organism and organisms are messy)). My username, if you're wondering, is a "conservative" transliteration of my legal name, using the aforementioned system ("Νεφέλη" becomes "Nephele").

Spanish has 70% of words from Latin, 10% from Greek, 8% from Arabic, 3% from Gothic. The remaining 9% are loans from Ancient Celtic, Basque Eusquera, Aztecs' Nahuatl, Mayan's Quechua, Aimara, Guarani, Caribean's Taino, Persian, Tagalog... and modern English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese and Gypsies' Romani. So in the end we had a lot of Greek influence. Most prefixes and sufixes in science are greek. The words you wrote are similar: alfabeto, geografía, historia, filosofía, cartografía, Sofía, Felipe, Apolonia. Even normal apliances like teléfono, televisión are a mix of Greek and Latin (tele=far, fono=voice, vision=sight)

αλφάβητο, γεωγραφία, ιστορία, φιλοσοφία, χαρτογραφία, Σοφία, Φίλιππος, Απολλωνία

But grammar is completely different ❤I am greek

​@@BlackHoleSpainyes Spanish have few common words with greek but grammar is completely different ❤

Latin is also heavily inspired by greek

Καλο κουράγιο φιλτατη!

It’s by far not the most beautiful language 😂 keep fooling yourself

@@afjo972 of course it might not be for everyone 😊 I just love it!

@@afjo972 its subjective....

Same I also started learning greek, it’s also crazy how you can suddenly understand words like phobia etc.

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@@lizelantt Yes🙃Love you all too, sis 🇬🇷 ❤🇦🇲

Oh that would be an absolute chaos, trust me.

Yeah but Üpsilon haha keine Ahnung warum man es im deutschen nicht wie ein i ausspricht..

@@So_-sk2wbIm Altgriechischen hat man das „Y“ noch wie „Ü“ ausgesprochen, der Laut ist aber im laufe der Zeit zu „i“ geworden, den Laut „Ü“ gibt es also im Modernen Griechischen nicht mehr. Lustigerweise verwandelt sich das „Ü“ in vielen Deutschen Dialekten auch immer in ein „i“, z.B Bayrisch: Übel-Iwel (verwandt mit eng. Evil btw), über-iwer, Rübe-Riabm, usw…

@@Nova-Franconia Ah okay interessant, ich hab mich nämlich schon die ganze Zeit gefragt warum wir es so aussprechen

Also in spanish, "i griega" which translates exactly as "greek i", but we can call it with other name, "ye" (but this one is an older word, and is in disuse in Spain nowadays, but they still use it in some countrys in Iberoamérica).

In Polish it's also "igrek", however it doesn't simply mean "Greek i" in Polish, that would be "i greckie".

​@@migteleco It is correct, in spanish it is like that, but I would like to clarify that the name that is recommended (recommended by RAE) is "ye", although the name "i griega" is also accepted. In spanish speaking Latin American countries we mostly use the name ye when the letter goes in a word (rayo, mayo, etc.) and we mostly call it "i griega" when it goes alone as a copulative conjunction between two words or phrases (peras Y manzanas). However, it is not unusual for us to call it either way in both exemplified situations.

​@@mac1429refrain from speaking for latinamerican. In Argentina is I Griega, never heard of Ye, nobody says that. Same as we don't say U Be o doble U, we say Be corta ( short B) and Doble Be, double B.

@@Argentvs Thats more a caribeean thing, Cubans for example, they say Ye

how does this started? I mean for what reason the college groups use Greek letters? I knew it as an information, mostly from American movies but i don't know the story behind this tradition.

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Is there a similarity between the alphabet and the numbers ?

@@BookOwl60 What do you mean? Greek letters are used in every science and mathematical aspect that's why i have the Greek alphabet on my keyboard π= 3.14 Archimedes constant Σ -sum up Δ- differentiations - laplace operators δ - force of interest μ - mobius function σ -divisor functon θρλζγξψω in trigonometry ..... And many other uses Google: "Greek letters used in Science"

For example Omega and π are in Greek and math

@@ahmadsaadoriginal Well, Σ is the sum up Δ differentiations π 3,14 λ Φ ψ ξ coefficients , cosines and tangents All Greek alphabet letters are used in advanced sciences like Aerodynamics , Fluid Mechanics, etc

Thank You for pointing this out! 👍🏻

Mpro epitelus vrika ena elleniko video

Και αφού έψαχνες να βρεις ένα ελληνικό βίντεο, το "μπρο" τι το θες...;

Yeah, they were really late for this. And even, not the complete alphabet though xD

Engineers are the Oompa-Loompas of science 😄

Yes, but the pronunciation has changed in the Greek language, we use an older Greek. :)

Και εγώ Έλληνας .

The pronunciation is totally different. You don't say beeta, but vita. You dont say gamma but you call it something like yamma γάμμα not goo but yoo. Only alfa is clear but like alpha not alfa.

Yes it was hugely influenced by Greek alphabet

Kyrilos and Methodius was Greek Christians monk's, the ones who created your alphabet.

That italian girl is actually russian descendant. Her parent is russia but living in italy

​@@boboboy8189no way. How do you know?

@@boboboy8189I was thinking she looks very slavic and not the least bit Italian

That's why she doesn't know anything. The greek alphabet is pretty famous in Italy, most people would know many letters

@@iamauroraborealis she already said that in previous video. And look at that face, that not italian face. I have been training my eyes to recognize where are people on Internet came from. Although its hard when mixed race happened. When her first appearances my guess is russia and when she said italian, i got shocked.... Until she said her parent from russia but live in italy, she born in italy.

Spanish has 70% of words from Latin, 10% from Greek, 8% from Arabic, 3% from Gothic. The remaining 9% are loans from Ancient Celtic, Basque Euskera, Aztecs' Nahuatl, Mayan's Quechua, Aimara, Guarani, Caribean's Taino, Persian, Tagalog... and modern English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese and Gypsies' Romani. So in the end we had a lot of Greek influence. Most prefixes and sufixes in science are greek. Teléfono, televisión are a mix of Greek and Latin (tele=far, fono=voice, vision=sight)

I think Russian is the most similar alphabet to Greek of all. 😍

​@@stellamarina.Russians having an alphabet that Greeks created doesn't make their language any similar to greek 💀

@@veryberry4 yes, you're right. I meant the alphabet, not the language. I'll change my comment. Tnx.

Yoo

​@@veryberry4it's bulgarian

It's because they pronounce it based on ancient greek, not modern greek. Ancient greek has been studied for millennia, nobody really cares about modern greek.

Not quite. The sound is actually represented by an inverted y, not quite lambda. It's [ʎ]

@@littlewishy6432 That's the one I found🤷🏽‍♀️😅

That's because Desi Erasmus fucked up the pronounciation of the greek language making all the germanic-saxon people, but not olny, pronouncing it his way. And today especially the american english has further butchered the greek languages through the fraternities: βήτα (beitaah) μι (moo) νι (νοο) πι (pie) φι (fei)

No, in Hellenic🇬🇷 it’s also alfavíta. It’s not Alfa-beta❌ This is the incorrect Erasmian pronunciation which has nothing to do with how we pronounce our language! We never called it bèta. Ββ in Hellenic is V (víta)!

you're talking about modern Greek but in the ancient Greei the letters were pronounced differently, there were also aspirate sounds which don't exist now.

True, since it was an adaptation of the greek alphabet by 2 Greek missionaries.

Yes so true, I think it would have been perfect if there was an Italian and someone with Cyrillic alphabet in their language. That way you’d have the Latin (Italian) and the Cyrillic because Greek really is mix of both of them

Greek is older that both of them, so it can't be a mix...@@So_-sk2wb

​@@loveintheend89greek thought by pheonician how to create alphabets. Go look at pheonician letter Compare that to greek and rencong

I nevr said the opposite. Greek alphabet is still older that the Latin and Cyrillic one.@@boboboy8189

In italian the same

@@lucaserafini9580 - Besides those three, you guys don't use the "x" and the "j", so even less letters than us. 😃

the w is only used in Spanish for anglicisms

@@delmo3580 - The three letters that I mentioned are also used for words or names of foreign origin (not only for anglicisms) that we don't adapt or translate to Portuguese. Examples: Bayern Munique, Okinawa or Kelvin. I know Spanish, so I know that you use the "y" but I can't think of any native Spanish word that uses the "k".

Really you dont use Y? Crazy conaidering that you are so close to spanish where Y is basically Essential.