Greek Ancient and Modern Alphabet

wikipedia - In the 9th and 10th century, uncial book hands were replaced with a new, more compact writing style, with letter forms partly adapted from the earlier cursive. This minuscule style remained the dominant form of handwritten Greek into the modern era. During the Renaissance, western printers adopted the minuscule letter forms as lowercase printed typefaces, while modelling uppercase letters on the ancient inscriptional forms. The orthographic practice of using the letter case distinction for marking proper names, titles etc. developed in parallel to the practice in Latin and other western languages.

Inscription		Manuscript		Modern print
archaic	classical	uncial	minuscule	lowercase	uppercase
				a	?
				ß	?
				?	G
				d	?
				e	?
				?	?
				?	?
				?	T
				?	?
				?	?
				?	?
				µ	?
				?	?
				?	?
				?	?
				p	?
				?	?
				s?	S
				t	?
				?	?
				f	F
				?	?
				?	?
				?	O

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