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Greek Alphabet Flashcards

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What is the second letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?

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Beta “β” and to our letter B

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What is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?

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Alpha “α” and to our letter A

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What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?

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Gamma “γ” and to our letter G (also to our letter C the 3rd letter in our alphabet which arose from gamma and g)

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What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?

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Delta “δ” and to our letter D

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What is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?

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Epsilon “ε” and to our letter E

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What are the first five familiar letters of the Greek alphabet?

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Alpha beta gamma delta epsilon

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In modern Greek what do the letters beta gamma and delta sound like when pronounced?

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Beta can be pronounced with a “v” sound like the word valley
Gamma can be pronounced either withe a garbled “g” sound like gha sound or a “y” sound like in the word yes
Delta can be pronounced like a “th” sound like in the word this

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What are the academic pronunciations for the first five Greek letters?

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Alpha like the "a" in the word father
Beta like the "b" in the word boat
Gamma like the "g" in the word goat
Delta like the "d" in the word door
Epsilon like the "e" in the word jet
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How many total vowels are there in the Greek alphabet?

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What are the first 3 unfamiliar letters in the Greek alphabet?

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Zeta
Eta
Theta

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What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Zeta “ζ” and to our letter Z
Sounds like the letter Z in the word zoo for the academic and modern pronunciation or the “ds” sound in the word ads for the academic pronunciation

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What is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Eta “η” and to our e with the line above it

Sounds like the “ea” in the word break for the academic and the “I” in the word police for the modern pronunciation

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What is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Theta “θ” and to our letters “th”

Sounds like the “th” sound in the word thing for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Iota “ι” and to our letter I
Sounds like the “I” in the police for both academic and modern but can also sound like the “I” in the the word sit for academic pronunciation

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What is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Kappa “κ” and to our letter K

Sounds like the “k” in the word kitchen for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Lambda “λ” and to our letter L

Sounds like the L in the word lion for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Mu “μ” and to our letter M

Sounds like the M in the word mother for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Nu “ν” and to our letter N

Sounds like the N in the word noon for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What are the next five familiar letters of the Greek alphabet?

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Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Mu
Nu
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What is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Xi “ξ” and to our letter X

Sounds like the letter X in the word axis for both academic and modern pronunciation

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Is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet Xi considered familiar or unfamiliar?

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Unfamiliar

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What is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Omicron “ο” and to our letter O

Sounds like the letter O in the word obey for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Pi “π” and to our letter P

Sounds like the letter P in the word pitch for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Rho “ρ” and to our letter R
Sounds like the letter R in the word rope for academic pronunciation but can also sound rolled or thrilled like an rrrr in the modern pronunciation

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What is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Sigma “σ” and to our letter S
Sounds like the letter S in the word sink for both academic and modern pronunciation but it can also sound like an “sh” to us when we hear it in modern Greek and can also be pronounced as the letter Z sound from the word zoo in modern Greek
In the written Greek language sigma can have 2 symbols one uses for its placement at the beginning of a word or in the word and then a different symbol if placed at the end of the word

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What is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Tau “τ” and to our letter T

Sounds like the T in the word teach in both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Upsilon “υ” and to our letter U if it is written next to a vowel or our letter Y if it is not
Sounds like the letter U in the word flute for academic pronunciation and like the letter I in police in modern pronunciation

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What are the last 6 familiar letters of the Greek alphabet?

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Omicron
Pi 
Rho 
Sigma
Tau
Upsilon
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What is the last set of unfamiliar letters of the Greek alphabet?

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Phi
Chi
Psi
Omega

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What is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Phi “φ” (fee) and to our “ph” sound

Sounds like the “ph” sound in the word Pharisee for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Chi “χ” (khee) and like our “ch” hard sound pronounced as a hard Kha or like the “ich” sound in German words for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Psi “ψ” (psee) and our letter ps

Pronounced like the letters PS in the word clips for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What is the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet and what letter does it transliterate to in English?
What are the academic and modern pronunciation if any for it?

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Omega “ω” and to our long sound of O with the line above it

Sounds like the O in the word note for both academic and modern pronunciation

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What are the vowels of the Greek alphabet?

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Α  α alpha 
Ε ε epsilon
Η η eta
Ι ι iota
Ο ο omicron
Υ υ upsilon
Ω ω omega
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Which letter of the Greek alphabet takes on a different form when it is the last letter of a word?

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Sigma

35
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Where do you find upper case Greek letters?

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At the beginning of:
Sentences
Proper names
Quotations

36
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Which Greek capital letters correspond with our English alphabet?

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Alpha A
Beta B
Epsilon E
Zeta Z
Iota I
Kappa K
Mu M
Nu N
Omicron O
Tau T
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Which capital Greek letters don’t follow along with either our English alphabet or or not similar to the lower case Greek letter counterpart?

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Gamma Γ γ
Delta Δ δ
Eta Η η
Lambda Λ λ
Xi Ξ ξ
Rho Ρ ρ
Sigma Σ σ
Upsilon Υ υ
Omega Ω ω
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Which Greek upper case letters appear similar to their lower case counterparts?

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Theta Θ θ
Pi Π π
Phi Φ φ
Chi Χ χ
Psi Ψ ψ
Also Rho Ρ ρ but this can be confused with our letter P
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What are diphthongs?

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2 consecutive vowels in a single syllable

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How many Koine Greek diphthongs are there and how are they pronounced?

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There are 7:
4 end in the iota:
αι ει οι υι
Hellenic pronunciation is:
αι sounds like eh like in our word said
ει οι υι all sound like ee like in our word receive
Academic or Erasmian pronunciation is:
αι sounds like long i as in the word aisle
ει sounds like eigh like in the word eight
οι sounds like oi in the word oil
υι sounds like ui as in the word suite

3 end in the upsilon:
αυ ευ ου
Hellenic pronunciation is:
αυ sounds like and like in our word offer or like ahv like in our word ave maria think of this like our letter A pronounced with long or short dependent on whether it is before a vowel
ευ sounds like ef or ev depending on the next consonant like in the words effort and ever
For αυ & ευ if the next letter is a vocalized sound like with b, a, l, n, z, etc then use the vocalized v sound but if the follwing consonant is unvocalized like with t, p, s etc then the sound will be the f sound
ου sounds like ou as in our word you
Academic or Erasmian pronunciation is:
αυ sounds like ou as in the word out or ouch
ευ sounds like eu ooh as in neuter
ου sounds like ou as in you

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What are improper diphthongs in Biblical Greek?

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When a vowel has an iota subscript written under it we see it written as a small ι under the α, η, ω these don’t have any effect on pronunciation

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What does the double gamma sound like when placed in a word together?

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The γγ combination is pronounced like a ng-g but the combo is not considered a diphthong

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