Shared letters between Greek, English, and Cyrillic alphabets

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[–]compultantuser 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh man I learned attic Greek, it was fun. I want to take Russian to learn Cyrillic

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I only know all the Greek symbols because of math courses lol. What is attic greek?

[–]compultantuser 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Greek from Athens during 3rd/4th century. Aristotle, Plato, Aristophanes, Sophocles, etc.

Bible is in Hellenistic Greek originally, which came after, and is simplified a bit from the attic.