{"title":"Ongunkan Arkaic Greek","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany local variants of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_alphabet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGreek alphabet\u003c\/a\u003e were employed in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greece\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eancient Greece\u003c\/a\u003e during the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_period_in_Greece\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003earchaic\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_period_in_Greece\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eearly classical\u003c\/a\u003e periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today. All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenician_alphabet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhoenician alphabet\u003c\/a\u003e, with the exception of the letter \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samekh\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSamekh\u003c\/a\u003e, whose Greek counterpart \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xi_(letter)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eXi\u003c\/a\u003e (Ξ) was used only in a sub-group of Greek alphabets, and with the common addition of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upsilon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eUpsilon\u003c\/a\u003e (Υ) for the vowel \/u, ū\/.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoodard201026%E2%80%9346-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJeffery196121ff-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e The local, so-called \u003cem\u003eepichoric\u003c\/em\u003e, alphabets differed in many ways: in the use of the consonant symbols \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chi_(letter)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eΧ\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eΦ\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psi_(letter)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eΨ\u003c\/a\u003e; in the use of the innovative long vowel letters (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CE%A9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eΩ\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CE%97\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eΗ\u003c\/a\u003e), in the absence or presence of Η in its original consonant function (\/h\/); in the use or non-use of certain archaic letters (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CF%9C\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eϜ\u003c\/a\u003e = \/w\/, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CF%98\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eϘ\u003c\/a\u003e = \/k\/, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CF%BA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eϺ\u003c\/a\u003e = \/s\/); and in many details of the individual shapes of each letter. The system now familiar as the standard 24-letter Greek alphabet was originally the regional variant of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ionia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIonian\u003c\/a\u003e cities in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatolia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAnatolia\u003c\/a\u003e. It was officially adopted in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athens\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAthens\u003c\/a\u003e in 403 BC and in most of the rest of the Greek world by the middle of the 4th century BC.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/collections\/ongunkan-arkaic-greek-font-runic-world-tamgac.oembed","provider":"MyFonts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}