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! ==== Middle Ages ==== * Coins from the 4th-8th centuries known as [[mordovka]]s were used as currency in Eastern Europe by [[Uralic languages|Uralic peoples]] and were written in [[Moksha language|Moksha]] using Greek uncial script.<ref>{{harvnb|Zaikovsky|1929}}</ref> * An 8th-century [[Arabic language|Arabic]] fragment preserves a text in the Greek alphabet,<ref>J. Blau, "Middle and Old Arabic material for the history of stress in Arabic", ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' '''35''':3:476-84 (October 1972) [https://www.academia.edu/38210328/Joshua_Blau_Middle_and_Old_Arabic_Material_for_the_History_of_Stress_in_Arabic_Bulletin_of_the_School_of_Oriental_and_African_Studies_vol_35_no_3_1972_476_484 full text]</ref> as does a 9th or 10th century psalm translation fragment.<ref>Ahmad Al-Jallad, ''The Damascus Psalm Fragment: Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Ḥigāzī'', in series ''Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East'' (LAMINE) '''2''', Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2020; [https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/lamine/lamine2 full text]; see also [[Bible translations into Arabic]]</ref> * An [[Ossetic language|Old Ossetic]] inscription of the 10th–12th centuries found in [[Arxyz]], the oldest known attestation of an Ossetic language. * The [[Old Nubian language]] of [[Makuria]] (modern Sudan) adds three Coptic letters, two letters derived from [[Meroitic script]], and a digraph of two Greek gammas used for the [[velar nasal]] sound. * Various [[South Slavic languages|South Slavic]] dialects, similar to the modern [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] and [[Macedonian language]]s, have been written in Greek script.{{sfn|Miletich|1920|p=}}{{sfn|Mazon|Vaillant|1938|p=}}{{sfn|Kristophson|1974|p=11}}{{sfn|Peyfuss|1989|p=}} The modern South Slavic languages now use modified [[Cyrillic alphabets]].<!--see footnote in Macrakis 1996--> 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