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ionic alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized I Etymology: ionic (I) : a variety of the eastern form of the ancient Greek alphabet having 24 letters in its developed form and officially accepted late in the 5th cent. B.C. at Athens from which its use in time… … Useful english dictionary
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
Ionic — /uy on ik/, adj. 1. Archit. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus … Universalium
History of the Greek alphabet — The History of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms and continues to the present day. This article concentrates on the early period, before the codification of the now standard Greek alphabet. The Phoenician… … Wikipedia
Greek alphabet — Writing system developed in Greece с 1000 BC, the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets. Derived from the North Semitic alphabet via that of the Phoenicians, it modified an all consonant alphabet to represent vowels.… … Universalium
Cumae alphabet — The Cumae alphabet, was a western variant of the early Greek alphabet, used between the 8th to 5th centuries BC. It was specifically used in Euboea (including the towns of Cumae and Chalkis) and the areas west of Athens, especially in the Greek… … Wikipedia
Greek alphabet — Type Alphabet … Wikipedia
Greco–Iberian alphabet — The Greco Iberian alphabet is a direct adaptation of an Ionic variant of a Greek alphabet to the specificities of the Iberian language, thus this script is an alphabet and lacks the distinctive characteristic of the rest of paleohispanic scripts… … Wikipedia
chalcidian alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : any of the non Ionic Greek alphabets; specifically : that of the Chalcidian colonies of lower Italy and Sicily from which the Latin alphabet was developed * * * Chalcidian alphabet noun The alphabet used by… … Useful english dictionary
Messapic alphabet — also called Messapian Alphabet, one of two Italian offshoots of the Tarentine–Ionic variety of the Greek alphabet. It was adopted c. 500 BC by the Messapii, who inhabited southeastern Italy in pre Roman times. * * * … Universalium
