Alphabet relationship - Hebrew and Greek

Alphabet relationship - Hebrew and Greek

March 2006 00Hebrew_Alphabet_Greek.doc

Phoenicians & languages using its scripts

 

In the following, Greek font is in SPIonic, while Hebrew font is in Hebraica.

Greek & Hebrew Comparison

U	C	E	NL	NL	IPA	WPA	Horder	H1	H2	HN	WPA
A	a	a	alpha	a)/lfa	A	ä	1		a	'āleph	ä
B	b	b	bēta	bh~ta	b	b	2	B	b	bêth	b / v
G	g	g	gamma	ga/mma	g	g	3	G	g	gimel	g / j
D	d	d	delta	de/lta	d	d	4	D	d	dalet	d /v
E	e	"e"	epsilon	e)/yilo/n	e	e {ě}	5		h	hē	e{ě}
Z	z	"z"	zēta	zh~ta	dz, z	z	7		z	zayin	z
H	h	"e"	ēta	h~ta	ei / e:	ā	8		j	hêth	ā
Q	q	"th"	thēta	qh~ta	q	q	9		f	têth	t
I	i	i	īōta	i)w~ta	I[1]= i	ē / i	10		y	yôd	i
K	k	k	kappa	ka/ppa	k	k	11	K	k	kaph	k
L	l	l	lambda	la/mbda	l	l	12		l	lāmed	l
M	m	m	mu	mu~	m	m	13		m	mēm	m
N	n	n	nu	nu~	n	n	14		n	nu^n	n
X	x	x	xī	ci~	ks	ks	15		s	samekh	s
O	o	o	ōmīcron	o)/mikro/n	O	o	16		ע	'ayin
P	p	p	pī	pi~	p	p	17	P	p	pēh	p /ph
R	r	r	rhō	r(w~	r	r	20		r	rĕs	r
S	s, V	s	sigma	si/gma	s	s	21		c/v	śin / šin	s/ sh
T	t	t	tau	tau~	t	t	22	T	t	tāw	t /th
U	u	u	upsilon	u~)yilo/n	U / u[2]	U	6		w	wāw[3]	w
F	j f	ph	phī	fi~	f	f
C	c	ch	chī	xi~	x	KH					KH
Y	y	ps	psī	yi~	ps	ps					ps
W	w	ō	ōmega	w)~me/ga	əu	ō					ō
obsolete		s	san				18		x	sādhê	s
obsolete		q	qoppa				19		q	qoph	q

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[1] I is the new IPA for short i.

[2] Berkeley's site says that upsilon was earlier a close back rounded vowel [u], and it retained this value in the diphthongs au, eu, hu; in classical Attic, the sound [u] = oo was conveyed by ou. In its description, it is German ü(=ue), but further divided into short and long close front rounded vowels as in fugh/ and yuxh/ respectively.

[3] Actually there is an obsolete Greek word, wau, looks like a F corresponding to this Semitic Alphabet. See also Genetic Correspondences Between Hebrew, Greek and Roman Alphabets by John Opsopaus (c) 1997 (web reference).