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Grec et copte

Grec et copte

Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, a separate Coptic block has been included in Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires the use of combining characters or the precomposed vowel + tone characters in the Greek Extended character block.

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. As such, it became the ancestor of numerous other European and Middle Eastern alphabets, including Latin and Cyrillic. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language, both in its ancient and its modern forms, the Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields.

In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega. Like and Cyrillique0400–04FF , Greek originally had only a single form of each letter; it developed the letter case distinction between upper-case and lower-case forms in parallel with Latin during the modern era.

Sound values and conventional transcriptions for some of the letters differ between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek usage, owing to phonological changes in the language.

In traditional («polytonic») Greek orthography, vowel letters can be combined with several diacritics, including accent marks, so-called «breathing» marks, and the iota subscript. In common present-day usage for Modern Greek since the 1980s, this system has been simplified to a so-called «monotonic» convention

The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are several Alphabets, as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various dialects and subdialects of the Coptic language.

Propriétés

Intervalle	0370–03FF
Personnages	144

Liste des Caractères

Tableau des Caractères

0300–036F Diacritiques 0400–04FF Cyrillique

0: Plan multilingue de base

1: Plan multilingue supplémentaire

2: Plan idéographique supplémen

3: Plan idéographique tertiaire

4-13: Non utilisé

14: Plan auxiliaire Spécialisé

15: Zone Supplémentaire à usage privé – A

16: Zone Supplémentaire à usage privé – B

Grec et copte

Propriétés

Liste des Caractères

Lettres archaïques

Signes numériques

Lettres archaïques

Iota souscrit

Symboles éditoriaux en minuscules

Ponctuation

Lettre supplémentaire

Accents à chasse

Lettre

Ponctuation

Lettres

Variantes de lettres

Lettres archaïques

Lettres coptes issues du démotique

Variantes de lettres

Lettre supplémentaire

Variantes de lettres et de symboles

Lettres archaïques supplémentaires pour le bactrien

Variante de lettre

Lettres archaïques

Symbole

Symboles éditoriaux

Tableau des Caractères

0: Plan multilingue de base

1: Plan multilingue supplémentaire

2: Plan idéographique supplémen

3: Plan idéographique tertiaire

4-13: Non utilisé

14: Plan auxiliaire Spécialisé

15: Zone Supplémentaire à usage privé – A

16: Zone Supplémentaire à usage privé – B