Italy, French, Romania, Vlach, Portuguese, Spain, England are using the same alphabet.The
December 13 2005 at 11:15 AM No score for this post
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Italy, French, Romania, Vlach, Portuguese, Spain, England are using the same alphabet.The Hellenes and the Greeks are using the Phoenician alphabet. Bigla you never answer the Hellenic words into to Greek why? Because there are two different languages. How do you say rooster in Grekika and how do you say in Hellenic?
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The early Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet, but it developed into a separate alphabet: the Greek alphabet. The early Phoenician alphabet was no doubt based on an existing alphabet but it developed into a separate Phoenician alphabet. The early Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were based on the Greek alphabet but developed into separate alphabets. These are facts accepted by everyone on the face of the Earth except, it seems, for you. Why?
In English: Greek alphabet
The same thing in Greek: Elliniko alfavito
In English: Greek (language)
The same thing in Greek: Ellinika
Conclusion: the terms 'Greek' and 'Hellenic' (common English spelling) are often interchangeable.
Examples:
the Greek nation=the Hellenic nation
Greek dancing=Hellenic dancing
Read more here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=greek&searchmode=none
<<< Greek - O.E. Crecas (pl.), early Gmc. borrowing from L. Græci "the Hellenes," from Gk. Grakoi. Aristotle, who was the first to use Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes ("Meteorologica" I.xiv) wrote that it was the name originally used by Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus, from Graii, native name of the people of Epirus. But a modern theory (put forth by Ger. classical historian Georg Busolt, 1850-1920), derives it from Graikhos "inhabitant of Graia" (lit. "gray"), a town on the coast of Boeotia, which was the name given by the Romans to all Greeks, originally to the Gk. colonists from Graia who helped found Cumae (9c. B.C.E.), the important city in southern Italy where the Latins first encountered Greeks. It was reborrowed in this general sense by the Greeks. Meaning "unintelligible speech, gibberish" is from 1600. Meaning "Greek letter fraternity member" is student slang, 1900. >>>
Obviously, the term 'Greek' carried forward into German and then English through the Western branch of Christianity, but as Aristotle said, Greeks and Hellenes are the same.
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Bigla if you call the Phoenician Greek alphabet than the Cyrrilic is called Macedonian
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December 14 2005, 5:30 PM
Bigla if you call the Phoenician Greek alphabet than the Cyrrilic is called Macedonian
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Pay close attention Lin
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December 17 2005, 10:13 PM
The early Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet. Nobody denies this.
Over the course of many centuries, the Greek alphabet developed into a new and separate alphabet. Nobody denies this, except you. I'll take the word of lingistic historians over you.
The Cyrillic alphabet is a new and separate alphabet which was developed from the Glagolithic, which was based on the Greek alphabet.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/cyrillic.html
<<< The Cyrillic alphabet was traditionally one of the two scripts invented to write Slavic languages, the other being Glagolitic. However, Cyrillic emerged as the more widespread of the two, probably due to its similarity to the Greek alphabet. At its height during the Soviet Union, Cyrillic was used to write not only Slavic languages such as Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, etc., but also languages from other family like Mongolian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Azeri, Tajik, and so on. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, many of these languages have started to move toward other alphabets, such as Arabic and Roman.
It is rather clear to see that a majority of the Cyrillic letters were derived from Greek. The backward N which stands for /i/ comes from Greek eta η. Some of the letters (such as sibilants) were borrowed from Hebrew and Syriac alphabets. >>>
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The ancient Hellenic heritage has been stretched to such extremes, it has become a subject of ridicule around the World. A free society cannot continue under the shadows of ancient glory and myth, the chains of Hellenism have compromised the sense of freedom and reality. The concept of self-criticism is a remote idea from the national Greek psyche.
