Greek alphabet
Writing system
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well... Wikipedia
Alpha symbol: Α
Child systems: Gothic; Glagolitic; Cyrillic; Coptic; Armenian; Old Italic and thus Latin and Runic; Georgian; Anatolian
Languages: Greek
Official script: Greece; Cyprus; European Union
Parent systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs > Proto-Sinaitic alphabet > Phoenician alphabet > Greek alphabet
Unicode range: U+0370–U+03FF Greek and Coptic; U+1F00–U+1FFF Greek Extended