Greek Alphabet | Do You Know How To Pronounce It?
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Do you know about Greek alphabet?
How do they call and how do they pronounce?
Is it same as English?
Let's see!
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Amazing how Greek words and letters actually have massive influence in many fields, yet it's not really a popular language to learn for most people.
It was twice the most spoken language in the world so it has to make huge influence as Greece is also the Cradle of Western civilization
It used to be very widely spoken, especially in its ancient form, but now only people whose families speak greek learn it. Sometimes even university students and professors do as well, for example i know what in South Korea, some students learn about Homer and are taught greek to help them with their education. It must be said that Greek is also very hard to learn, not as hard as japanese or korean, but still hard af.
Its totally useless to learn, it's only spoken in Greece and Cyprus, two basically insignificant countries, has not sister languages you can learn afterwards, no business value and it's super hard to pronounce unless you're Spanish or maybe African.. it has a lot of open sounds which are horror for English, German or Russian speakers and soft consonants which are hard for Arabic or Chinese speakers.
P.S I am Greek
Guess what I know greek because I am Greek
Because the greek that has a lot of influence in many fields Is the ancient greek and not the current one. It Is like saying why nobody study italian since latin words are found in many fields ? PS : i am italian and i studied ancient greek.
I adore everything Greek , the language , the food , the nature , the culture , even there mythology ❤️
We thank you.
👍👍😀
Thank you!❤
Thanks
Aww thank u so much
Thank you all for being so kind ❤️
Would love to visit your country one day 🥰
I see a lot of influence from the Greek language in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and especially history, even the Bible had Greek influence (the biblical New Testament was originally Greek while the Old Testament was in Aramaic).
Old Testament was Borg in Hebrew and Aramaic
Probably because at the time of the New Testament the lingua franca of the eastern part of the Roman Empire was Greek
The evolution of the alphabet is symbol (like a bull), Hebrew aleph, Greek alpha, a.
The first translations of the Original Hebrew/Arameic Bible were Septuaginta and Vulgata . It wasn't written in Greek it was translated so more people in Europe could access it and then the Latin Bible was used for centuries.
Greek words are always the ugliest words
Fun fact: the Latin alphabet is also Greek in origin, taken to the Italian peninsula by Greek colonies. In the Greek city-states of antiquity there were many alphabets. Until in the 5th century BC in Athens, all alphabets were brought together and unified into one, the one we have today, minus 4 letters which were removed in the era of the Roman Empire.
The "latin" alphabet comes from the Chalcidian alphabet. ☺
@@hariszark7396😂😂😂
@@grechka7 Where is the joke my friend?
@@hariszark7396Which came from Greece.
@@binxbolling That's what I said.
Πάμε ελληνικά! Πάμε Ελλάδα! 🇬🇷 δεν είμαι Έλληνας χαχα, αλλά, διαβάζω ελληνικά τώρα και μου αρέσει πάρα πολύ αυτή η γλώσσα ❤ I am studying Greek right now and I love it. It just makes me sad that you hardly ever see content on the Greek language like this. It's not a very popular language but I think it should be. It's a very beautiful, complex, and intriguing language. It's also very ancient. I wish more people saw the beauty in it and studied it
Τέλεια💙🤍
Η Ελλάδα είναι όμορφη 😍
@@androidoneiu5206 Είναι! Πολύ όμορφη 😊
Ναι εγω ειμαι ελληνιδα😊
Πάμε Ελλάδα 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
The italian girl should’ve said that in italy there’s a type of highschool where we study ancient greek, but even if she didn’t study it, she should’ve been able to know many more letters since it’s common knowledge here and also used for math
They are acting
Infatti mi stupisco che non abbia saputo neppure la ypsilon . Un minimo di superiori e almeno 5 le riconoscevi
Tranquilli che il 98% delle persone non lo sa. Allo scientifico conosciamo al massimo alfa beta e gamma per gli angoli. (Poi non so se se ne fanno altre al quinto anno che sto al quarto) ne so un paio in piu per cultura personale ma quasi nessuno le sa
@@ItalianMaps ma che cagate vai dicendo....figurati se non si conosce la ypsilon allo scientifico.
@@icoborghai ragione io faccio lo scientifico d praticamente tra fisica e matematica ormai l abbiamo quasi finito L alfabeto greco
Im so happy to see the Greek language on CZcams!
Never studied Greek, but I got most of them right cause of all the letters I found during my scientific studies. Also yes, as Italian I can say we have a lot of words coming from Latin and Greek
Greek alphabet: Α,Β,Γ,Δ,Ε,Ζ,Η,Θ,Ι,Κ,Λ,Μ,Ν,Ξ,Ο,Π,Ρ,Σ,Τ,Υ,Φ,Χ,Ψ,Ω
Νο σήμερα είναι 18 Νοεμβρίου i from an grece
Italian & Latin alphabet & idiom was based in old and classic Greek alphabet and idiom and all neolatin romanic Langs, slavics, Celtics Baltics, germanics are based in greek cos the Greek mythology, philosophy,arts,science,poetry influence is global til today.
Greek is the father figure and real father for Italian for Spanish,Portuguese, French, Romanian etc
Ho detto la stessa cosa anche io. In tutte le superiori almeno 5 lettere in matematica le trovi... allo scientifico ne impari altre 4 5
@@ilefab4545 e si, quando ho fatto lo scientifico ne avevo fatte alcune, poi altre in uni
Finally a video with focus on greek language , although i don't know that much i've been interested for a long time , since greek influenced many other languages in the world
Hellenic is older than Latin!
Latin alphabet was based on Hellenic.
They might be confusing for them but you are all using Hellenic letters.
Slavs too! The Cyrillic alphabet was invented by two Hellene🇬🇷 monks based on the alphabet they knew: Hellenic.
They used that alphabet to write the language of the Rus and convert the Slavic people to Orthodoxy!
Αλφαβήτα / alfavíta
Αα: άλφα / àlfa
Ββ: βήτα / víta
Γγ: γάμμα / gàmma
Δδ: δέλτα / dèlta
Εε: έψιλον / èpsilon
Ζζ: ζήτα / zíta
Ηη: ήτα / íta
Θθ: θήτα / thíta
Ιι: ιώτα / iòta
Κκ: κάππα / kàppa
Λλ: λάμδα / làmda
Μμ: μυ / mí
Νν: νυ / ní
Ξξ: ξυ / ksí
Οο: όμικρον / òmikron
Ππ: πι / pí
Ρρ: ρο / rò
Σσς: σίγμα / sígma
Ττ: ταυ / tàf
Υυ: ύψιλον / ípsilon
Φφ: φι / fí
Χχ: χι / hí
Ψψ: ψι / psí
Ωω: ωμέγα / omèga
Something that very few people know is that if you say the names of the letters you are making a prayer to the Sun!
Every time that you are saying the alphabet you are praying to the eternal and life-giving light of the Sun-God Apollo!
Yes, the alfabet is older, but the murching of sounds in modern Greek is quite confusing.😅
The neolatins idioms are called neohellenics idioms cos they all are based on Greek too.
Source? Πολύ ενδιαφέρον, δεν το γνώριζα.
Axam ke omikron bernsta͡ɪn su efaɣan ton kolo me psixula jaʎu, tu eriksan venzini ke tu evalan fotia.
Ke itæ meɣæli pütiŋɡæ vötkæs efæje tön ömörfö kölö sü 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
The Spanish girl talking about Greek words as brands, I've seen a TED-talk, a linguist gave his own, kind of relevant interpretation about it. The companies which decide to use a Greek word as their name have slightly higher chances to succeed. All I remember, I was amazed by his conclusion and some data he provided. He's talking generally how powerful the Greek language can be and how is still shaping us, despite of the widespread use of English.
It was great to hear them spoken by a native speaker. Would love to hear the rest.
Greek letters were learned in primary school in Argentina, and we used them for math.
Transformers is Unicron, not Omicron Andrea...
Greek is similar to Russian because Cyrillic is a writing system made by Orthodox Christians when they expanded Christianity into the pagan lands of the Kievan Rus. It is based on classical Greek alphabet adapted for the old Russian sounds.
Greek grammar and spelling have nothing to do with Russian language.. the Cyrillos and Methodios, the two Greek Priests did not invent the language of Russians but their alphabet... the language existed and evolved years before the Russian alphabet...
@@karieamelsims4331 hey Karen. That exactly what I've said. There is no sentence where I say the priests "invented" Russian...
Facts! 💯 Also, some Fun Facts:
Anrdea = Greek 🇬🇷 Name meaning Brave [Manly]
Sofia = Greek 🇬🇷 Name meaning Wisdom
The Greek 🇬🇷 Letters Everyone should AT LEAST know are:
Αlpha
Βeta
Γamma
Δelta
Κappa
Λambda
Οmicron
Πi = 3.14
Σigma
Υpsilon = E Griega
Ωmega
^^^^At Minimum those should be known by anyone in a Western Country 🤷🏻♂️
The Beginning of Argentina’s name is from the Greco-Latin Argiro, we still use this word for SILVER (as well as with Asimenio).
Also, one of the First Preseidners of Argentina was Greek! Greetings to our friends in Beautiful Argentina! Blue & White Power!
🇬🇷💙🇦🇷✊🏻
@@karieamelsims4331All Slavs use an Alphabet developed by Kyrillos the Greek Eastern Roman "Byzantine" and was codified by Naum & Clement, their disciples.
For some reason I studied the Greek alphabet and Roman numerals in high school in Venezuela, so this time I got them all right
In German, we literally call Y Ypsilon. It's the only letter that has such a long "name" in our language.
Unfortunately, we all learned Greek letters either by studying math or due to Covid19 variants.
Psilon bedeutet hoch. Hoch i , omicron ( micro bedeutet kurz) kurz o , omega bedeutet (mega bedeutet groß ) groß o (Ω) das ist eine klein information 🙂. der deutsche Spracheist auch schön aber ich finde schwierig richtig zum lernen ,besonders das Artikel aber ich versuche noch.
Ψηλόν means high, ψιλόν from ύψιλον means thin
Finally an episode about greek language! We are waiting for more!
As Greeks when we are kids we naturally learn the greek alphabet first and then the Latin alphabet after a year or two, when most kids start learning English. It's funny and confusing because when I was little I used to read all the English words and English signs in the streets in a greek way. For example I would read the "STOP" sign as "STOR" because a P is an R in Greek
In Russian too R is P
@@konstantinfromkrasnoyarsk5941 The Russian alphabet based in the Greek alphabet through the orthodox church in the Byzantium era, that's why!
@@konstantinfromkrasnoyarsk5941 also in Russian alphabet the English Hh or the Greek Ηη is Нн and pronounced as English Nn or Greek Νν right ? 😅
But you also got many other letters that sound similar to the Greek like Ф or М or П which are written similar with the Greek Φ Μ and Π and pronounced the same way.
Fun fact I studied the Greek alphabets in science and mathematics. 😂😂
εγώ έβαζα τόνο στο όνομά μου επειδή τότε δεν ήξερα ο,τι στα αγγλικά δεν έχουν τονισμούς
As a Greek, I see this as an absolute win
for anyone wondering, the multiple I's and E's are a remnant of ancient greek.
which had more complicated, and more in total, pronunciations.
lucky us, modern greek simplified all those into a single sound each.
They all had different sounds. Now we have seven different ways to say ι. If anything, it got more complicated to learn.
In Spanish, when we use greek letters in Maths or Physics, we call τ tau (pronounced taoo), ν nu (pronounced noo) and μ mu (pronounced moo), φ is fi (pronounced fee)
θ is theta (pronounced teta), but δ is delta, ρ is ro, γ is gamma... I suppose psi, sigma, omicron, lambda don't change in other languages, but maybe I'm wrong.
same in italyy
Many of them are correct. Also the Υ(lower case υ) in Spanish is y griega, meaning Greek ee, so you can understand the sound it makes. But it's not always as ee but sometimes when it's next to α, ο, ε it makes another sound. If you're interested I can tell you
The tau is correct and u represents the Ypsilon (υ), but since Byzantine Greek era, αυ started to sound like af or av. So Taf is the correct pronounciation today and in Greek writes like Ταυ. Same with Nu, Mu. It pronounces like Nee and Mee today but in antiquity Y(υ) was a combination of oo and ee, like the French U and German Ü
The same is with Russian about these letters.
Even about "Y" of the Latin alphabet, it is called "игрек" (possibly borrowed from French, but the stress shifted to the first syllable).
Don’t you call Yspilon = Y as: E Griega? Or is that only in Latin American Countries? 🤔
Also trying to remember how the greek 'O' sounds are spelled/pronounced you could remember their etymology. Omikron (Ο/ο) means mikro 'O' (=little O) while Omega (Ω/ω) means mega 'O' (=Big O)
In spanish the letter Y is called "i griega" (literally greek i)
Same in French. Y is pronounced "i grec"
im chinese and i also speak greek so i knew all of it
If you had physics class in high school and were somewhat interested in it, you know almost all of the Greek alphabet, both upper and lower case letters.
True, but you've also been taught to mispronounce them.
@@dreamystone Not exactly... The pronunciation often taught is how the letters were originally pronounced in ancient Greek (the Ancient Greeks used to pronounce them very similarly, although that's changed since the early byzantine empire (the first changes happened before that in koine Greek))
For example, in Pericles' era (Attic dialect), not many fricatives existed, the letters representing today's representing plosives in ancient Greek. For example, "π β φ" was pronounced "p, b, p-h", with all three of them being plosives. Phi (φ) was pronounced the same as pi (π), but aspirated (denoted with the extra h). That's why all ancient Greek words containing phi were transliterated using the consonant cluster "ph" in Latin. Same goes with "θ/th" pronounced the same as "τ" but aspirated, and "χ/chi" being an aspirated "k". The "th" also eventually replaced any English alternatives (like the thorn), having been influenced by the French language (who also adopted it from Greek phonology; note that the French "th" sounds much closer to the ancient Greek equivalent than the English "th" does).
Examples to demonstrate (words derived using this method to English):
- theater < ... < θεάομαι
- philosophy < ... < φιλεῖν + σοφός
- character < ... < χαράσσω (χαράττω in Attic)
@@nephelekonstantatou If you are Greek then you are the first Greek I have met who accepts the reconstructed pronunciation. Since you are alive, you must be very careful to hide this dark side of yours in front of your fellow Greeks.
@@igorjee It does feel like that sometimes haha. Most Greeks are more conspiracist-like (if that's even a word) than most flat-earthers regarding the language. I like to think that it ruins their patriotism to grasp a weirdly unfamiliar language in the past, that almost sounds alien, if you will. Maybe it's to their genuine dislike, that they would prefer to stay absent from the search of the truth, rather than accept it, maybe even at all costs. Jokes aside, if I'd heard a decent and persuasive counterpoint so as not to accept the reconstructed Attic (modern) pronunciation, then I would gladly do so. The evidence, on the other hand, suggests otherwise (after all, Greek wasn't at all in isolation, but rather, the opposite is true; its relation with other languages of its period can, although not without difficulty, be studied). It's the best approximation to reality modern linguists have provided, so who am I to judge? (Note: there have also been some interesting situations/evidence suggesting that more of the modern fricatives started to appear from the Attic dialect era, though it gets really messy from here (after all, language is a living organism and organisms are messy)). My username, if you're wondering, is a "conservative" transliteration of my legal name, using the aforementioned system ("Νεφέλη" becomes "Nephele").
European languages are heavily influenced by both Greek and Latin and it is very much a cultural and ligistical things. For example words in Polish thst have Greek origins (spelled in Polish latinized alphabet) :
Alfabet, geografia, historia, filozofia, kartografia , names Zofia, Filip, Apolonia, Jerzy. And so much more
Spanish has 70% of words from Latin, 10% from Greek, 8% from Arabic, 3% from Gothic. The remaining 9% are loans from Ancient Celtic, Basque Eusquera, Aztecs' Nahuatl, Mayan's Quechua, Aimara, Guarani, Caribean's Taino, Persian, Tagalog... and modern English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese and Gypsies' Romani.
So in the end we had a lot of Greek influence. Most prefixes and sufixes in science are greek. The words you wrote are similar: alfabeto, geografía, historia, filosofía, cartografía, Sofía, Felipe, Apolonia. Even normal apliances like teléfono, televisión are a mix of Greek and Latin (tele=far, fono=voice, vision=sight)
αλφάβητο, γεωγραφία, ιστορία, φιλοσοφία, χαρτογραφία, Σοφία, Φίλιππος, Απολλωνία
But grammar is completely different ❤I am greek
@@BlackHoleSpainyes Spanish have few common words with greek but grammar is completely different ❤
Latin is also heavily inspired by greek
Greek is the ONLY language in the world where you can spell the letters
Trying to understand what you mean, could you please give me an example?
@@johnny19817
,Α... άλφα.. alpha
B... Βήτα....vita
Ε... Έψιλον... Epsilon
@@johnny19817 al-fa ,vi-ta, gam-ma , de-lta ,e-psi-lon etc
@@johnny19817 What he means is that we have full words for every letter. So instead of just writting "A", we can write Alpha(Άλφα). An example in english would be instead of just writting "W,J,K", is writting "double U", "Jay', "Kay" etc. Something like that at least :D
Italian also...
Greek is the most beautiful language and I'm so happy that I started learning it a year ago 😍
Καλο κουράγιο φιλτατη!
It’s by far not the most beautiful language 😂 keep fooling yourself
@@afjo972 of course it might not be for everyone 😊
I just love it!
@@afjo972 its subjective....
Same I also started learning greek, it’s also crazy how you can suddenly understand words like phobia etc.
Ypsilon is well known around the world, because it's used in math early in school. We all remember the a.b.c = y type of homework we all got at some point. And the teachers all use the Greek names of the letters, when applicable.
For us Spaniards, understanding the sounds is reeeeally easy, since we have the same ones. And Greek grammar is really similar to ours too.
Fun fact: Y in Spanish is called "ye" or "i griega", which means "Greek i".
Yes, greek sounds exactly like Spanish to me. I need a moment to understand which one I'm hearing
If the Spanish girl deside to learn Greek (for any reason) she will speak Greek better than many Greeks and noone will understand she is a foreigner. That applies for all the Spanish people, they have the accent.
Cyprus and Greece is my from ❤🇨🇾🇬🇷
Wow I’m so happy people are saying so nice things about greek in comments (I’m greek so yeah it makes me happy) Πάμε Ελλάδα!!!!
Being to Greece/Cyprus and having Greek relatives I perceive Greek letters as native in general😊 Just got used to them❤️🇬🇷🇨🇾 Moreover, Greek is the only language that is closest to mine in Europe😊
Are you Armenian?? I love Armenia from Greece 🇦🇲❤️🇬🇷
@@lizelantt Yes🙃Love you all too, sis 🇬🇷 ❤🇦🇲
I used to be in a fraternity in college and it was called Delta Kappa Epsilon
As an engineering student i knew almost all of them
Even the word alphabet is greek and consists of the 2 fist letters in the Greek alphabet, A and B (Alpha and Beta).
Aldo our S is written "Σ" and pronounced "Sigma."
I know almost all greek letters.
I think it's very common.
Fun facts that I didn't even realise they're a thing. Όμικρον (Omicron) is O-micron (a micro O), while Ωμέγα (Omega) is a mega O. Also, Ύψιλον (Ipsilon) literally means high pitched E (ψιλός is someone with lack of volume). Finally something for Ν/ν (Ν/n). Nike comes from the greek word Νίκη, which means victory and was also the name of the godness of victory. Have a look at the lowercase Ν (ν), that's Nike's logo!
American college student would know, coz fraternities and sororities are named usually after 3 greek letters
how does this started? I mean for what reason the college groups use Greek letters?
I knew it as an information, mostly from American movies but i don't know the story behind this tradition.
Glad to see the notif. Yeay, it is time to learn Greek 🇬🇷 Alphabet. Thank you for sharing. 🌟🧡
Also the "υ" letter not only sounding as -ee but it also sometimes, when it's necessary, pronouncing as -f like the word "ταυ" instead of "taf"(the t letter). Also, in another times it pronouncing as -vee (like veeta) like the word "σαύρα" (sáura) instead of "savra"(lizard).
Thank You for pointing this out! 👍🏻
I think it would be interesting to show them some Greek letters that have no equivalent in the latin alphabet and see what they would make out of them. ;)
Oh that would be an absolute chaos, trust me.
This test is very easy for someone who has done a lot of higher education in maths,physics and chem
i love when a video has greek in it keep the good job
You could say that omicron and omega are the two o's of greek language. They come from ancient greek where the omicron was the short sound (o - micron) and omega the long sound (o - mega), as you also said it in zoo. Micron and mega are the two known greek words, also for small and big.
This way you never forget it. ;)
French "y'" is called "i grec" (greek i)
Also in spanish, "i griega" which translates exactly as "greek i", but we can call it with other name, "ye" (but this one is an older word, and is in disuse in Spain nowadays, but they still use it in some countrys in Iberoamérica).
In Polish it's also "igrek", however it doesn't simply mean "Greek i" in Polish, that would be "i greckie".
@@migteleco It is correct, in spanish it is like that, but I would like to clarify that the name that is recommended (recommended by RAE) is "ye", although the name "i griega" is also accepted. In spanish speaking Latin American countries we mostly use the name ye when the letter goes in a word (rayo, mayo, etc.) and we mostly call it "i griega" when it goes alone as a copulative conjunction between two words or phrases (peras Y manzanas). However, it is not unusual for us to call it either way in both exemplified situations.
@@mac1429refrain from speaking for latinamerican. In Argentina is I Griega, never heard of Ye, nobody says that. Same as we don't say U Be o doble U, we say Be corta ( short B) and Doble Be, double B.
@@Argentvs Thats more a caribeean thing, Cubans for example, they say Ye
Loved the video, such a fun group!
In german we call the letter y ypsilon as well 😌
Yeah but Üpsilon haha keine Ahnung warum man es im deutschen nicht wie ein i ausspricht..
@@So_-sk2wbIm Altgriechischen hat man das „Y“ noch wie „Ü“ ausgesprochen, der Laut ist aber im laufe der Zeit zu „i“ geworden, den Laut „Ü“ gibt es also im Modernen Griechischen nicht mehr. Lustigerweise verwandelt sich das „Ü“ in vielen Deutschen Dialekten auch immer in ein „i“, z.B Bayrisch: Übel-Iwel (verwandt mit eng. Evil btw), über-iwer, Rübe-Riabm, usw…
@@Nova-Franconia Ah okay interessant, ich hab mich nämlich schon die ganze Zeit gefragt warum wir es so aussprechen
Love your shows!
To be honest you make me to feel so proud as Greek. So, thank you! 😊🙏🏻 🇬🇷👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻✌🏻
7:41 in portuguese too
Love this video and show more the greek woth the romanics neolatins girls models too ❤❤❤❤
ı love to see Oliviane in videos she is so pretty
Πολύ ωραίο το βίντεο . Keep it Up !
Im greek and i loved this video!❤😂
The letter Y is called "ypsilon" and similar ways as direct take from greek. And in many languages it's just called "greek i"
Almost all of medical words come from the Greek language. When i was taking a test in anatomy it was a very easy task for me and felt sorry for my American classmates having to learn so many unknown hard words.
I'm from Cyprus so I know Greek
Pronunciations (Notes: δ becomes dh, θ becomes th, and γ becomes gh):
Alfa
Vita
Gamma
Dhelta
Epsilon
Ita
Zita
Thita
Yota
Kappa
Lamdha
Mi
Ni
Xi
Omikron
Pi
Ro
Sighma
Taf
Ipsilon
Fi
Hi
Psi
Omegha
I am from Greece and it's beautiful ❤️
as a greek person, I see this as an absolute win
Some pretty sure have also heard Alpha, Beta and Omega applied to animals or even now in the internet to alpha,beta males.
coming from the Greek alphabet,
- Alpha is the first letter, which can be also used to describe a wolf as the leader, or some males calling themselves Alpha
- Beta is the second letter, which can be used to describe the other wolfs of the pack, the followers(because after the letter Alpha, comes Beta) and again some men use it to insult other males as "followers" or not assertive etc.
- Omega is the last letter of the greek alphabet, which is also used for the wolfs, to describe the lowest/weaker one
Omicron = O mirkon = Όμικρον, which in Greek translates as "small O" (micron=μικρόν=small). Omega = O mega=Ωμέγα , which in Greek translates as "big O" (mega=μέγα=big). The Omicron letter is supposed to resemble the sun in the day time, which looks smaller and is round and this gave the letter this shape O. The Omega is supposed to resemble the sun when it is setting, which looks bigger and is half hidden under the horizon. For this reason it has the shape Ω, like a big round sun, starting to hide under the horizon. This is the story of the two 'oh' letters of the Greek alphabet.
I like it, it is very important to become acculturated to a country as important to civilization as Greece was.
Thank you guys im Greek person❤
I love u pronounce everything (im greek)
We engineers use those greek letters as symbols in some formula, very easy to guess. lol
Engineers are the Oompa-Loompas of science 😄
Yes, but the pronunciation has changed in the Greek language, we use an older Greek. :)
I'm from Greece and Greece is beautiful ❤
I love 🇬🇷
I've had ancient greek for two years in school, but the difference between modern Greek and a Dutchified ancient Greek reconstructed pronunciation is quite large.😂
It is quite funny to puzzle with the modern Greek information on mass-produced packages.😂
(As well as for other languages (close enought to what) I learned in school.)
There are many Greek words in Italian; from what I remember (other than Latin of course) we have Greek, Longobard/German and even Arabic words (eg coffee, sugar etc).
In (more or less) modern times instead, were added what we call Frenchisms and Englishisms (if I've written some inaccuracies people more competent will correct me).
Spanish has 70% of words from Latin, 10% from Greek, 8% from Arabic, 3% from Gothic. The remaining 9% are loans from Ancient Celtic, Basque Euskera, Aztecs' Nahuatl, Mayan's Quechua, Aimara, Guarani, Caribean's Taino, Persian, Tagalog... and modern English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese and Gypsies' Romani.
So in the end we had a lot of Greek influence. Most prefixes and sufixes in science are greek. Teléfono, televisión are a mix of Greek and Latin (tele=far, fono=voice, vision=sight)
Finally i was waiting this
Yeah, they were really late for this. And even, not the complete alphabet though xD
I’m so happy that someone finally remembered our language!❤
No worries. It's the most influential language in the world together with latin and english.
In Portuguese "Y" is ípsilon. Together with "k" and "w", it's one of the letters of the alphabet that we don't use in the Portuguese language. 🙂
In italian the same
@@lucaserafini9580 - Besides those three, you guys don't use the "x" and the "j", so even less letters than us. 😃
the w is only used in Spanish for anglicisms
@@delmo3580 - The three letters that I mentioned are also used for words or names of foreign origin (not only for anglicisms) that we don't adapt or translate to Portuguese. Examples: Bayern Munique, Okinawa or Kelvin.
I know Spanish, so I know that you use the "y" but I can't think of any native Spanish word that uses the "k".
Really you dont use Y? Crazy conaidering that you are so close to spanish where Y is basically Essential.
Amazing hot this language was the base for the Latin and Cyrillic Alphabet and was the common language of all people from the Mediterranean to the borders of India for many many centuries.
That's when having studied engineering (before I changed paths), beccomes handy. Oh! And phonetics too. "Ll" in Catalan, "lh" in Portuguese and "gli" in Italian sounds the same way and the symbol it's the /λ/ (lambda)
Not quite. The sound is actually represented by an inverted y, not quite lambda. It's [ʎ]
@@littlewishy6432 That's the one I found🤷🏽♀️😅
The Greek letter T (τ) is pronounced taf, but in greek is spelled "ταυ" (ΤΑΥ); that's why when the "τ" is being used in science, they wrongfully pronounce it "tau". Spelling it ταφ (taf) is nowadays valid only cause of the oversimplification of the language.
It's because they pronounce it based on ancient greek, not modern greek. Ancient greek has been studied for millennia, nobody really cares about modern greek.
Μπρο επιτέλους βρήκα ένα ελληνικό βίντεο/ im greek btw
Mpro epitelus vrika ena elleniko video
Και αφού έψαχνες να βρεις ένα ελληνικό βίντεο, το "μπρο" τι το θες...;
Italy don't sleep in class
As someone who has to learn Greek because I go to Greek school in Cyprus it is actually pretty easy if you ask me
I AM FROM GREECE
you should bring someone that uses cyrylic script to the mix. They should get lot of it
Yes, ∆ is Д, π is П, rho is Р, lambda is Л, there is even theta in some Cyrillic alphabets (in old Russian it meant the [f] sound in religion things (and the "psi" letter was there).
We say Ypsilon in german too but its pronounced like Üpsilon
Before watching the video, I just thought "alfa, beeta, gamma" (in the Finnish 🇫🇮 spelling of them 🇬🇷) 🙃
The pronunciation is totally different. You don't say beeta, but vita. You dont say gamma but you call it something like yamma γάμμα not goo but yoo. Only alfa is clear but like alpha not alfa.
I really like this language 💙
I love that videos we are all brothers make more ❤❤❤
We had to deal a lot with Greek letters in math, physics and chemistry classes at school and university here in Germany, but the pronunciation used in those fields is in many cases closer to Ancient Greek. So Β/β would be /beta/ instead of the Modern Greek /vita/. It's not universal though, in contrast Φ/φ is pronounced closer to the Modern Greek /fi/ instead of Ancient /pʰi/
Oμικρον in English is: O(micro)n = small O
Ωμεγα is: O(mega) = big O
Lovely ladies. Lets go Greece most influential country in the whole world
Fun fact: O (Omicron), means "small O", let's say micro O, and Ω (Omega), stands for "big O", mega O! Y (Ypsilon) means "short I" and E (Epsilon) stands for "short E". The long equivalents of these letters are H (Heta) and AI (it is called AlphaYiota), which is a diphthong.
There is a whole pholosophy behind the Greek alphabet.The sounds are not accidental.Even when you're just saying the alphabet,hidden messages are revealed.Our ancestors were extremely genious that's why they developed so many principles in the fields of fine arts and science!
Yes, it was the same with the Cyrillic script too. Saying the alphabet was actually a poem. But Cyrillic was heavily influenced by Greek so that's not news. Unfortunately we don't keep the old names of the Cyrillic letters and the poem that I was talking about is kinda lost.
«ΑΛ ΦΑ, ΒΗ ΤΑ ΓΑ ΑΜΑ ΔΕ ΕΛ ΤΑ ΕΨ ΙΛΩΝ. ΣΤΗ ΙΓΜΑ (ΙΝΑ) ΖΗ ΤΑ, Η ΤΑ, ΘΗ ΤΑ ΙΩΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΛΛΑΝ ΔΑ. (ΙΝΑ) ΜΗ ΝΥΞ Η, Ο ΜΙΚΡΟΝ (ΕΣΤΙ), ΠΥΡΟΣ (ΔΕ) ΙΓΜΑ ΤΑΦΗ ΕΨ ΙΛΩΝ, ΦΥ(ΟΙ) ΨΥΧΗ, Ο ΜΕΓΑ (ΕΣΤΙ)»
Fun fact:I’m from Greece 🇬🇷 ❤
Italian has not a new alphabet,but we have many words that we write in a different as the right pronunciation
I like the video
Οτι καλύτερό έχω δει❤
Opsilon... Oops,I did it again xD
And,btw,in Russia there is "alfavit",but Greek letter is calling "beta" [bæta].Curious.
Funny and intresting video.Thank You.
That's because Desi Erasmus fucked up the pronounciation of the greek language making all the germanic-saxon people, but not olny, pronouncing it his way. And today especially the american english has further butchered the greek languages through the fraternities: βήτα (beitaah) μι (moo) νι (νοο) πι (pie) φι (fei)
No, in Hellenic🇬🇷 it’s also alfavíta.
It’s not Alfa-beta❌
This is the incorrect Erasmian pronunciation which has nothing to do with how we pronounce our language!
We never called it bèta.
Ββ in Hellenic is V (víta)!
you're talking about modern Greek but in the ancient Greei the letters were pronounced differently, there were also aspirate sounds which don't exist now.
Science Maths students be like:
Oh, α, β, δ, ρ, γ, λ and others!
We know these guys so well!!😊
Very soon make a video only with Scientific words in Hellenic(Greek), Italian, Spanish and English...
It will be...GREAT !!!!!!!
Yea i know hiw to speak greek ναι ξέρω να μιλάω Ελλινηκά!!
Μπράβο Μαρία
As a mathematician I know all Greek alphabet
Pain
Is there a similarity between the alphabet and the numbers ?
@@BookOwl60
What do you mean?
Greek letters are used in every science and mathematical aspect that's why i have the Greek alphabet on my keyboard
π= 3.14 Archimedes constant
Σ -sum up
Δ- differentiations - laplace operators
δ - force of interest
μ - mobius function
σ -divisor functon
θρλζγξψω in trigonometry
.....
And many other uses
Google:
"Greek letters used in Science"
For example Omega and π are in Greek and math