It was greek to me!! exclaims Casca in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. It is a difficult language. Although I am a native, I cannot claim I know it in depth. But let's not be too pessimistic. You may just wish to know a little about the language and the alphabet.
In my pages, I use the monotonic script, unless otherwise indicated.

 

greek language and script

Introduction at a glance. What to look for, links to simple phrases.

SHORT HISTORY of greek language and script through the ages. Greek dialects of ancient times, hellenisitc koine, byzantine, modern times demotic and katharevousa, modern dialects.

Links on greek language, dictionaries, alphabet, lessons.

greek alphabet

GREEK LETTERS symbols, IPA, sound in mp3. 24 Letters of the Greek Alphabet (also earlier abandoned letters) in Modern standard and Erasmic pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet. Short discussion on each letter's history. Word-examples.

and printable alphabet chart

COMBINATIONS OF GREEK LETTERS Binary combinations (diphthongs) of vowels, consonants.

DIACRITICS FOR GREEK SCRIPT Hellenistic accent marks of stress and breathing (daseia, psile, okseia, vareia, perispomeni).

example of ancient greek inscription. Easy to read!

ancient greek alphabet types (western-eastern)

chart of alphabet symbols in various ancient greek cities (.gif 422kb)

about small and capital letters (majusculae, minusculae)

greek letters as NUMBERS: greek numerals

greek letters IN SCIENCE

greek letters in ANCIENT MUSIC NOTATION [[addendum]]

dictionaries

greek modern: dictionary greek to greek 'Triantafyllidis online'

grammar

greek ancient: nouns. Inflection tables as in Tzartzanos' Grammar. horizontal table / vertical table (for advanced students)

phonetics and pronunciation for greek

How do we pronounce ancient greek (Erasmic and Standard pronunciations)

IPA for Greek in 3 levels (International Phonetic Alphabet symbols needed for GREEK)

A proposed system of transliteration of i.p.a characters for greek language for computer use.

transliterations of greek

A proposed system of transliteration of greek alphabet characters to latin for computer use.

A proposed system of transliteration of i.p.a characters for greek language for computer use.

LINKS.

'greeklish, greenglish' LINKS.

 

GREEK LITERATURE

 

APPENDIX

bibliography

my sources

LEXICON (DICTIONARY) terms and words

dictionary greek to greek 'Triantafyllidis' links

greek fonts

detailed chart: glyphs &#...; for greek letters in .html writing

 

katerina sarri, athens, 2009.09.25.