Greek alphabet Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Derived alphabets == [[File:Marsiliana tablet.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.35|The earliest Etruscan [[abecedarium]], from Marsiliana d'Albegna, still almost identical with contemporaneous archaic Greek alphabets]] [[File:Wulfila bibel.jpg|thumb|right|A page from the {{lang|la|[[Codex Argenteus]]}}, a 6th-century Bible manuscript in Gothic]] The Greek alphabet was the model for various others:{{sfn|Coulmas|1996|p=}} * The [[Etruscan alphabet]]; * The [[Latin alphabet]], together with various other [[Old Italic script|ancient scripts in Italy]], adopted from an archaic form of the Greek alphabet brought to Italy by Greek colonists in the late 8th century BC, via [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]]; * The [[Gothic alphabet]], devised in the 4th century AD to write the [[Gothic language]], based on a combination of Greek and Latin uncial models;<ref>{{harvnb|Murdoch|2004|p=156}}</ref> * The [[Glagolitic alphabet]], devised in the 9th century AD for writing [[Old Church Slavonic]]; * The [[Cyrillic script]], which replaced the Glagolitic alphabet shortly afterwards. * The [[Coptic Alphabet]] used for writing the [[Coptic language]]. The [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]] and [[Georgian alphabet|Georgian]] alphabets are almost certainly modeled on the Greek alphabet, but their graphic forms are quite different.<ref>George L. Campbell, Christopher Moseley, ''The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets'', pp. 51''ff'', 96''ff''</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page