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Greek Alphabet

Greek is written in its own 24-letter alphabet, left to right, with a capital and a small form of every letter; small sigma has a second form, ς, used only at the end of a word. It is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, so many letters look familiar, but a few look English and sound different (Β says v, Η says i, Ν says n, Ρ says r, Υ says i, Χ says h). Greek has no digits of its own in daily life: it uses 0–9, and the old letter-numerals (Αʹ Βʹ Γʹ) appear only for ordinals. Spelling is not one letter per sound: η ι υ ει οι all say i and ο ω both say o, so the pack teaches the two-letter sounds as well as the 24 letters. Every word of two or more syllables has one acute accent over the stressed vowel, but words written in capitals, as on signs, usually have none. Sounds use the lessons' spelling: the stress accent on the stressed vowel (egó, aftós), i for η ι υ ει οι, e for ε αι, o for ο ω, ou for ου, d for δ (really the th of 'this'), th for θ, h for χ, y or g for γ (y before e and i), ks for ξ, ps for ψ, and b / d / g for μπ ντ γκ at the start of a word but mb / nd / ng inside it.

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Letters 1–8 (Α–Θ)

Letters 9–16 (Ι–Π)

Letters 17–24 (Ρ–Ω)

Two-letter sounds

Accents and signs

Look-alikes (say something else)

Signs & menu words

Basic Greek phrases