10 Facts About Greek script

The form in which classical Greek script names are conventionally rendered in English goes back to the way Greek script loanwords were incorporated into Latin in antiquity.

Greek script initially took over all of the 22 letters of Phoenician.

Greek script was originally written predominantly from right to left, just like Phoenician, but scribes could freely alternate between directions.

Classical twenty-four-letter alphabet that is used to represent the Greek script language was originally the local alphabet of Ionia.

Between Ancient and Modern Greek script, they have remained largely unchanged, except that their pronunciation has followed regular sound changes along with other words.

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Apart from the daughter alphabets listed above, which were adapted from Greek script but developed into separate writing systems, the Greek script alphabet has been adopted at various times and in various places to write other languages.

Greek script symbols are used as symbols in mathematics, physics and other sciences.

Formerly, the Greek script letters were used for naming North Atlantic hurricanes if the normal list ran out.

Greek script letters are used to denote the brighter stars within each of the eighty-eight constellations.

Several Greek script letters are used as phonetic symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet.