Re: Greek letters ...

Jeff Watson wrote:

> <<< This 'lunate sigma' is why Cyrillic uses 'C' for /s/, right?
>
> Right... as I understand it, at the time these Greek-based alphabets were
> developed (traditionally by St. Cyril), 'C' was in vogue as a form of
> Sigma... Coptic also uses 'c' for the /s/ sound:
> http://www.stshenouda.com/coptlang/coptlsnhtm.htm
Interesting site. Only one query- what sort of hellish transliteration is
this? Instead of <ee> or <ei> for eta, he uses /.
Why <y> for theta? They don't even look similar!

Grr.

Dan

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