BBC

Your say - Learning tips

My husband is Greek Cypriot and I've been learning steadily for about a year. I actually found learning with a native speaker especially helpful. When we go round to my in-laws my mother in law talks ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Alphabet’s Phoenician Origins Questioned After 2,500 Years

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.
Seattle Times

With coronavirus variants, world gets crash course on the Greek alphabet

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the realm ...
Greek Reporter

How a Greek Missionary Shaped the Early Gothic Written Language

The Arian bishop Ulfilas devised a new alphabet for the Germanic Gothic language to translate the Bible, largely based on Greek.