What do the accents in the Greek alphabet mean?
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What do the accents in the Greek alphabet mean?
The Greek Alphabet:
The ancient Greek alphabet was one of the most important inventions in history. It was one of the first writing systems to make use of vowels. This system of writing vowels was later adopted by other peoples.
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View this answerThe accents mean a change in the pitch as which the vowel is pronounced. In ancient Greek, stress was marked by changes in the pitch in which a word...
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