Greek alphabet

The modern Greek 24 letters. Ancient Greeks only used the capital letters; the lower case letters were not invented until the time of Alexander the Great. The Greek letters digamma and qoppa were incorporated into the Roman as F and Q, respectively, but are not part of the modern Greek .

Following is a of letters in the modern Greek in alphabetical :

lower case	capital	name	comments
$\alpha$	A	alpha
$\beta$	B	beta	bita in modern Greek
$\gamma$	$\mathrm{\Gamma }$	gamma
$\delta$	$\mathrm{\Delta }$	delta
$ϵ$ or $\epsilon$	E	epsilon
$\zeta$	Z	zeta	zita in modern Greek
$\eta$	H	eta	ita in modern Greek
$\theta$ or $\vartheta$	$\mathrm{\Theta }$	theta	thita in modern Greek
$\iota$	I	iota
$\kappa$ or $\varkappa$	K	kappa
$\lambda$	$\mathrm{\Lambda }$	lambda
$\mu$	M	mu	mi in modern Greek
$\nu$	N	nu	ni in modern Greek
$\xi$	$\mathrm{\Xi }$	xi
o	O	omicron	o-small in modern Greek
$\pi$ or $\varpi$	$\mathrm{\Pi }$	pi
$\rho$ or $\varrho$	P	rho
$\sigma$ or $\varsigma$	$\mathrm{\Sigma }$	sigma	$\varsigma$ is used only at the end of Greek
$\tau$	T	tau
$\upsilon$	$\mathrm{{\rm Y}}$	upsilon	ipsilon in modern Greek
$\varphi$ or $\phi$	$\mathrm{\Phi }$	phi
$\chi$	X	chi
$\psi$	$\mathrm{\Psi }$	psi
$\omega$	$\mathrm{\Omega }$	omega	o-big in modern Greek

Title	Greek alphabet
Canonical name	GreekAlphabet
Date of creation	2013-03-22 15:40:25
Last modified on	2013-03-22 15:40:25
Owner	Wkbj79 (1863)
Last modified by	Wkbj79 (1863)
Numerical id	20
Author	Wkbj79 (1863)
Entry type	Topic
Classification	msc 01-00
Classification	msc 01A20
Synonym	Greek letters