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C3: A sequence of three or more consonants between two vowels is hyphenated with the succeeding vowel, if a Greek word exists that begins with the sequence of the first two consonants. Otherwise it splits; the first consonant being hyphenated with the preceding
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is a pair of letters used to write one sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the written letters in sequence. The orthography of Greek includes several digraphs, including various pairs of vowel letters that used to be pronounced as
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The ηυ combination is infrequently referred to in grammar books (KEME 1983), possibly because it appears in only a small number of words. However, this combination is also considered, because such words are regularly used e.g.,
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C2: A sequence of two consonants between two vowels is hyphenated with the succeeding vowel, if a Greek word exists that begins with such a consonant sequence. Otherwise the sequence is split into two syllables.
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in pronunciation. Many of these are characteristic developments of modern Greek, but some were already present in Classical Greek. None of them is regarded as a letter of the alphabet.
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This book is the official grammar book of Modern Greek edited by a group of experts and it is a revised edition of Triantafillidis (1941, reprint with corrections 1978).
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All of the above rules are negative in that they indicate impermissible hyphen points within particular substrings of consecutive vowels.
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Similarly, the orthography preserves ancient doubled consonants, though these are now pronounced the same as single consonants, except in
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This affects not only lexical items but also inflectional affixes, so correct orthography requires mastery of
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exists is on the Microsoft Windows Polytonic Greek keyboard (having the driver name KBDHEPT.DLL).
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middot serves as the Greek semicolon, but is so uncommon that it has often been left off of Greek
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to in Classical Attic Greek, but survives in some other contemporary dialects and in early Koine.
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are also in use. The slash has the additional function of forming common abbreviations like
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Monotonic orthography, adopted in 1982, replaces the ancient diacritics with just two: the
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to mark the ends of sentences or changing speakers. Less often, arrangements of three
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in 403 BC, however, Greek orthography has been largely conservative and historical.
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C1: A single consonant between two vowels is hyphenated with the succeeding vowel.
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appeared. Such interline punctuation could be noted or replaced by a variety of
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According to KEME (1983), the splitting of a Modern Greek word into syllables (
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Loanword hyphenation is governed by the same grammar rules as the rest of the
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marked a full stop at the end of a completed thought. Other writers employed
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The prohibitive hyphenation rules regarding vowel splitting are as follows:
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in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek,
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also pronounced and in some words (e.g. εγγενής, έγγραφο, συγγραφέας)
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marked an occasion for a longer breath after a longer passage, and a
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marked an occasion for a short breath after a short phrase, a
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V2. The combinations αυ, ευ, ηυ, αύ, εύ and ηύ do not split.
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in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing
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decomposes its separate code point identically. The
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The Details of Modern Greek Phonetics and Phonology
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Perhaps the clearest example of this is the 57:Early Greek writing in the Greek alphabet was 2401: 1734: 1162:marked by a single dot at varying heights, a 991:to represent aspects of the pronunciation of 2304:Institute for Language and Speech Processing 1327:, which developed a shape so similar to the 1090:was developed in the 3rd century BC: a 1665: 1663: 1498: 1492: 1466: 1456: 1449: 1407: 1401: 1372: 1357: 1342: 1304: 1291: 1275: 1257: 1245: 1229: 1213: 1171: 1147: 1139: 1131: 1071: 800: 781:, then adapted to early Christian Latin as 168: 156: 139: 119: 91:can be spelled η, ι, υ, ει, οι, or υι (see 2408: 2394: 1741: 1727: 1597:"A Rule-based Hyphenator for Modern Greek" 1558:Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching 912:Hyphenation rules of Standard Modern Greek 194: 1431:There are special rules for how to write 1146:marked the ends of sections. (A separate 2375:Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries 1660: 1303:. The right-pointing double Guillemets ( 896:) should be regarded as an allophone of 1636: 1632: 1630: 1628: 1594: 823: 821: 819: 14: 3571: 1220:was fully unified with the comma, the 1023:, polytonic spellings are still used. 965:V4. Excessive diphthongs do not split. 925:) is governed by the following rules: 916: 2389: 1722: 956:V1. Double-vowel blends do not split. 683:often reduced to in informal speech 655:often reduced to in informal speech 590:often reduced to in informal speech 1625: 1590: 1588: 1586: 1426: 1380:) is mostly used as in English. The 816: 1690:In informal writing, English-style 1639:"Greek Unicode Issues: Punctuation" 1062: 219:, it became customary to write the 24: 1748: 1320:. The principal difference is the 947: 25: 3605: 1700: 1583: 489:before vowel or voiced consonant; 468:before vowel or voiced consonant; 434:before vowel or voiced consonant; 799:, etc. The modern Greek form is 2294:Hellenic Foundation for Culture 1228:(and in this use is called the 733:The diphthong ωυ was found in 1694:have also become quite common. 1684: 1611: 1574: 1497:in modern Greek. A lower left 1483:character, encoded as U+0374. 1199: 1057: 727: 710: 101:can be spelled either ε or αι; 27:Writing system of Modern Greek 13: 1: 2299:Center for the Greek Language 1857: 1844: 1831: 1818: 1805: 1595:Noussia, Theodora I. (1997). 1568: 1234:) and it also functions as a 972: 107:can be spelled either ο or ω. 78:phonetic development of Greek 65:. Since the adoption of the 1443:over an entire number (like 1356:One of the few places where 999:letters, became standard in 962:V3. Diphthongs do not split. 891: 749:, and was gradually lost in 7: 3277:Ethiopian Semitic languages 1506: 1499: 1467: 1450: 1358: 1343: 1258: 1246: 1230: 1214: 1192:modified this system (see: 1172: 1166:marked by various forms of 1148: 1140: 1132: 805:, whereas the modern Latin 208:but have been shortened to 10: 3610: 2677:Phonology & ortography 1050: 1036: 976: 904:in its own right in Greek. 884: 777: 775:), which was atticized as 767: 745:, but it did not occur in 395: 351: 296: 3594:Ancient Greek punctuation 3584:Orthographies by language 3548: 3525: 3491: 3468: 3440: 3391: 3368: 3335: 3307: 3247: 3213: 3180: 3097: 3012: 2982: 2910: 2872: 2735: 2712: 2639: 2569: 2491: 2482: 2427: 2312: 2286: 2258: 2181: 2155: 2120: 2003: 1980: 1883: 1876: 1792: 1756: 1643:Thesaurus Linguae Graecae 1601:Computational Linguistics 1493: 1457: 1408: 1402: 1373: 1305: 1292: 1276: 1251: 1239: 1190:Aristarchus of Samothrace 1088:Aristophanes of Byzantium 801: 690: 552:ng / nj, g / j, ngh / njh 433: 430: 334: 331: 240: 235: 232: 169: 157: 140: 120: 995:. Polytonic, along with 867:respectively before the 567:and in informal speech; 2330:Greek language question 1533:Greek language question 1513:Ancient Greek phonology 1301:⟨«…“…”…»⟩ 785:, from where it became 559:, but often reduced to 223:iota in digraphs as an 195:Digraphs and diphthongs 1637:Nicolas, Nick (2005). 1553:Modern Greek phonology 1124:⟨⁞ or ⁘⟩ 1072: 1007:of modern Greek, both 741:transcriptions in the 2760:Classical orthography 2594:Standard Written Form 1563:Romanization of Greek 1479:(´), but has its own 942:Standard Modern Greek 2830:Montenegrin alphabet 2340:Morphemes in English 2325:Eteocypriot language 1757:Origin and genealogy 1715:, by Harry Foundalis 1707:Greek Unicode Issues 1489:Philip II of Macedon 1194:Aristarchian symbols 1183:papyrological hyphen 80:, especially in the 61:, different in each 2345:Terms of endearment 2320:Eteocretan language 2287:Promotion and study 1774:Pre-Greek substrate 1671:"The Look of Greek" 1485:Alexander the Great 1322:Greek question mark 1268:thousands separator 1250:, "whatever") from 1186:⟨ ͜ ⟩ 1113:two dot punctuation 917:Consonant splitting 2365:Greek Language Day 1995:Jewish Koine Greek 1784:Hellenic languages 1206:advent of printing 987:uses a variety of 82:Hellenistic period 3566: 3565: 3008: 3007: 2857:Cyrillic alphabet 2820:Cyrillic alphabet 2750:Cyrillic alphabet 2599:Kernowek Standard 2421:world's languages 2383: 2382: 2189:Cypriot syllabary 2116: 2115: 1990:Hellenistic Koine 1491:is thus known as 1475:) similar to the 1464: 1427:In Greek numerals 1335:⟨;⟩ 1325:⟨;⟩ 1314:⟨»⟩ 1179:⟨⸒⟩ 1154:was used to mark 1128:⟨⁙⟩ 1120:⟨⁝⟩ 1116:⟨⁚⟩ 1109:⟨˙⟩ 1102:⟨·⟩ 1095:⟨.⟩ 706: 705: 46:, was written in 18:Greek punctuation 16:(Redirected from 3601: 2489: 2488: 2410: 2403: 2396: 2387: 2386: 2108:Greco-Australian 1881: 1880: 1862: 1859: 1849: 1846: 1836: 1833: 1823: 1820: 1810: 1807: 1743: 1736: 1729: 1720: 1719: 1709:by Nick Nicholas 1695: 1688: 1682: 1681: 1679: 1677: 1667: 1658: 1657: 1655: 1654: 1634: 1623: 1615: 1609: 1608: 1592: 1581: 1578: 1502: 1496: 1495: 1470: 1462: 1460: 1459: 1453: 1446: 1412:'brothers'. 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