The rough breathing mark ( ῾ ) indicates that the first sound will have an initial “h” sound. It is placed above the vowels and “rho”, and above the second letter in the diphthongs. If a word in Greek starts with a vowel, diphthong or a letter ρ it must have a breathing mark written above it. Words in Greek can end on any vowel and on only three consonants: ν, ρ, ς. Exceptions are words of foreign origin such as Jewish personal names and geographical locations in the Greek Scripture. Hence, a new sentence starts with lower case letters. Upper case appears in the beginning of a paragraph, direct speech, proper names, geographical locations and names of nations. Watch this video Biblical Greek Alphabet Pronunciation to learn how the letters should be pronounced. English alphabet somewhat corresponds to the Biblical Greek Alphabet. S and X would be same as small small ones, so I've listed small ones instead of leaving their place empty.The New Testament Greek has 24 letters. There's no small capital versions of F, S, Q and X. For example, they can be used to draw attention to the opening phrase or line of a new section of text, or to provide an additional style in a dictionary entry where many parts must be typographically differentiated.Īs of Unicode 5.1, there are 3 characters missing.
They are used in running text to prevent capitalized words from appearing too large on the page, and as a method of emphasis or distinctiveness for text alongside or instead of italics, or when boldface is inappropriate. In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures.
And what's really strange is that they come from mathematics ^.^
They're mainly used in maths, but they're pretty and look very special. It's a "by-the-way", because they're English, but still very cool.
Here I give you a list of pretty letters. These one's are truly rare, but just in case you'll need some, here they are: Next is Ukrainian alphabet and some other symbols from Russian and ancient languages.