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Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 3: Uncials)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 3 of this series teaches you to write the Uncial variants of uppercase Greek letters. Scribes began to use these letter forms early in the Christian era, and the script is often associated...
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Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 2: Ancient Lowercase, or Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 2 of this series teaches you to write the minuscule (lowercase) letter variants. This Greek script became more and more common in later ancient times and the middle ages. Printed Ancient...
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Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 1: Ancient Uppercase, or Majuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 1 of this series teaches you to write the majuscule (uppercase) variants, the oldest forms of the Greek letters. This Greek script was used on ancient monuments and in older texts. Visit my...
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Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 4: Byzantine Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 4 of this series teaches you to write in the Byzantine minuscule hand. This version of lowercase Greek handwriting became increasingly prominent in the Middle Ages. Stylized forms emerged...
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Byzantine Greek minuscule script - the alphabet & varied letter forms
Learn to write the cursive minuscule hand used for Medieval Greek. Letters of the alphabet appear in various forms. Earliest forms (generally 800-1200) appear on the left, later forms (roughly 1600-1800) on the right. See my "Learn to...
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Byzantine Greek minuscule script - basic ligatures
In the old Greek cursive hand of the Middle Ages, letters join to form ligatures. Here are the types of regular ligatures you will find in medieval & early modern manuscripts: - two letters join with a horizontal stroke - two letters...
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IPA for Language Learning - allophones, utterances & prosody (4 of 4)
Learn to use the International Phonetic Alphabet in a way that helps you accurately pronounce other languages. In this fourth & final lesson I introduce concepts that make sense of longer streams of speech (utterances). Phonemes are...