Expertlatin
- Why is there no B in Greek?
- Why are there 2 O's in Greek?
- What 2 letters are missing from the Greek alphabet?
- Is there a letter J in Greek?
Why is there no B in Greek?
In Modern Greek, it is [vár·va·ros]. In general, the second letter of the alphabet, beta, was pronounced as [b] in Plato's time, but was changed to [v] by the time the Gospels were written.
Why are there 2 O's in Greek?
You will probably have noticed that some of the letters are redundant; Greek has three letters representing the sound /i/ ('ee') and two representing the sound /o/ ('oo'). This is because in Classical Greek the different letters did actually have different sounds associated with them.
What 2 letters are missing from the Greek alphabet?
In doing so, the WHO decided to skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet: nu and xi.
Is there a letter J in Greek?
Letter combinations in Greek
As the Greek alphabet doesn't have letters for the sounds “b”, “d”, “g”, “j” and “ch”, we use the consonant combinations above.
