Greek handwritten uppercase - basics & alternates

[@MattGalles]

Your videos are particularly fantastic for engineering students. Our professors have so many different ways of writing delta, sigma, pi, tau, zeta etc.... so seeing the variations helps a lot! Thanks!!

[@Chromozol]

You're welcome! As an engineering student myself, I hear ya... ':-)

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

Physics/maths student here, and I find xi (for the universal set) frustrating to write nicely.

[@luizatsilala7426]

I would like also to add that some people do not write the capitals so pointy. It's common, especially if you writing quickly, letters like Α, Δ, Λ, Μ and N to have a kind of curvy edges and lines.

[@Chromozol]

Thanks for your correction!

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

7:28 it is looking like the Church Slavonic коппа (Ҁ, ҁ) 7:49 it is looking like the Church Slavonic оукъ (ꙋ)

[@engorgioarmani3381]

OCS & Cyrillic WERE derived from uncial Greek script

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

7:28 That's actually the ancestor to Cyrillic dze (Ѕѕ).

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

@@engorgioarmani3381 i know

[@MarkRosa]

Isn't koppa (Ҁ) still used in Greek for the number 90? I was hoping Chromozol would show us how to write the ancient letters vau, koppa, and sampi (6, 90, and 900) in Greek. I've actually seen his ligature for "st" used for 6, so I'm a little confused.

[@roccythescirocco]

Great work and research! Συνέχισε :)

[@Chromozol]

Thank you!

[@gdgdgdgdgdgdgdgd]

Thank you. Your two videos seem to be the best source of knowledge for those who just started learning Greek and don't know how to write the letters. Would be also great to look at actual words written in real time to understand how letters are connected and which combinations are particularly tricky.

[@gdgdgdgdgdgdgdgd]

BTW, when I was looking for "greek handwritten", I unfortunately watched these videos after all the others. Why? Because of the "alternates" word. I thought your videos were about fancy ligatures, calligraphy and stuff like that. I didn't want any alternates, I wanted the basics. But it turned out your videos are actually the best ones about those basics.

[@tomraptile804]

Georgii D it's not necessary to connect the letters. Writing them just as they appear typed is fine

[@Chromozol]

@@gdgdgdgdgdgdgdgd Edited the title according to your suggestion. Thanks :D

[@ph20124]

Α1 Β1 Γ1 Δ1 Ε1 Ζ1 Η1 Θ1 Ι1 Κ1 Λ1 Μ1 Ν1 Ξ1 Ο1 Π my Π is like the fist and the second mixed😂 Ρ1 Σ1 Τ1 Υ2 Φ1 Χ1 Ψ1 Ω1

[@raczyk76]

Dziękuję za dwa filmy o alfabecie greckim. Właśnie się zabrałem za naukę starogreckiego. Pozdrawiam z Koszalina

[@nazyrkeryx1638]

so precise man θnx

[@koolkdny]

Nazyr Keryx *Ευχεριοτ is thanks in greek

[@nammin3953]

Wonderfully done! Congrats! Being Greek I have some suggestions! We never use the combination for OY and ΣΤ! In fact, many Greeks might not even recognize these letters! Also, the letter Σ is never written as a C. You may find it in Byzantine scripts thought! The video was amazing! Love from Greece!

[@Chromozol]

Thanks! I could have made it clearer that these forms are no longer used in handwriting, so thank you for clearing that up! I wanted to include them for anyone wanting to be able to read them in print (especially ΟΥ) or inscriptions and manuscripts.

[@zircon256ua]

It's "Cyrillic", not just Russian, you'd be leaving out Ukrainian and other alphabets (sure, some may have slight differences).

[@datwolfmanyouknow4109]

Πρέπει να πω ότι έχετε κάνει καλή δουλειά με τα δύο βίντεο μέχρι στιγμής =)

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

1:04 I just discovered digamma, an obsolete Greek letter I guess, but used in math still (I think?? or at least the word is). So you take Γ and "split it" with a bar (or rather, "double" the bar), and you essentially get the letter F, like Frank. I just found that fun.

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

Can see the resemblance to both Coptic and Cyrillic (I mean, they *DID* come from unicial Greek!)

[@raynecarlisle]

Is an sigma

[@WhisperingWindow]

Thank you for this as well as the verbal descriptions, they were very helpful.

[@luisporrasrojas2147]

More videos please teacher.

[@Chromozol]

OK, do you have anything particular in mind? :D

[@luisporrasrojas2147]

@@Chromozol Some phrases of philosophers in Greek. Thanks for answering.

[@vaggelhstheod367]

Milas ellinika do you speak Greek

[@koolkdny]

Εγώ μιλάω ενα μικρο Ελληνίκα.

[@joshuapatrickvidal4954]

The third alpha variation looks thike the letter a in the uncial Latin script

[@hari2030]

Nice explained sir..From india..

[@mariawagnon4261]

Awesome! I've been studying modern Greek for a week. I began to read and write words and phrases. Your videos helped me a lot. Would you please recommend any other videos or materiais? Great work. Thank you so much.

[@Chromozol]

Hi! I didn't study Greek myself, so I fall short on any tips regarding the language itself. Sorry! As to handwriting, I'd recommend asking someone native, and should that fail, you can always hunt Google images - you can try searching directly with Greek phrases, e.g. "γραφικός χαρακτήρας" should get you further than just "Greek handwriting".

[@heitian_boyi]

Thank you so much :)

[@fotyfar]

👍👍👍

[@Sebastiangamingroblox]

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[@Sebastiangamingroblox]

Alfa bita ghama dalta epzilon zata ata þita iota kappa lampda mu nu ksi omekron pe ro seegma tau upsilon phi khi psi omaga

[@gubblfisch350]

what language is that? in Germany we say: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, My, Ny, Xi, Omikron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Ypsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega

[@gubblfisch350]

the þ makes me think iceland or somthing